Word: raft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rubble and babble of his homeland; none of his nine fiction features is wholly set there. Instead, he is drawn to legends and nightmares. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), a Spanish officer of the 16th century dreams of conquering South America and ends up alone on a raft, blithe and demented, lording it over some monkeys. In The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1975), a young man appears in a Nuremberg square in the 1820s, with no recollection of his past; the townspeople attempt to "civilize" Kaspar, treating him as their pet, their lab rat, their ignorant savior...
...Antarctic, during which they performed scientific experiments for various organizations and ran a charter boat service to the South Pacific (several team members, including Burton, also got married), Transglobe proceeded by ship toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
...sweetness and light in Philadelphia, many party leaders are uneasy. In an attempt to project a united front, the conference approved a raft of bland policy positions that will win few converts to the Democratic cause. Aside from a resolution simplifying the income tax system, the platform is a model of artful dodges and hedges. "There seems to be a feeling that our good spirits and Reagan's problems will be enough, but they are not," observed Congressman Leon Panetta of California. "We've got to come up with bold new alternatives...
...into a tourist attraction, including museums of early Hollywood. The partners see their manifest destiny as Americans in saving a piece of old Hollywood. Bill Gordon, sixtyish with sad, deep-set eyes, fled Hungary in 1956, crossing the Ferto Lake into Austria with his family in a rubber raft. He wrote his sister-in-law, then living in Los Angeles, asking, "How far do you live from Hollywood?" Gordon became entranced with the image of Hollywood when he saw his first Greta Garbo movie at age 15 in Hungary. He still remembers that movie well-it was called Queen Christina...
Anyone who has ever been in the Raft Race knows what fun it can be. Every year, one of the rafts seems to enjoy what President Reagan might call "a definite margin of superiority For one afternoon, the Charles becomes a microcosm of international relations, complete with superpowers, neutral parties, and unstable third-world entries from places as remote as South House...