Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is not you boozing it up in the Charlestown apartment, or you, college boy, or you, Portuguese sailor. But isn't that you, propped neatly behind the desk, growling ever so faintly under your no-starch-in-the collar, reading intently of all the shocking gang rapes...
...central character is the rebellious, goofy boy who becomes a college dropout, an AWOL sailor, a protesting scholar and a waiflike pornographer. He could be a mere shnook. But as shrewdly played by Jack Gilpin, he is a natural winner with a compulsion to foul up to prove his independence. Ann McDonough, in the unshowy part of the girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready...
...Queen, according to one biographer, "is a poor sailor," easily made queasy. Even so, the royals had intended to spend most of their time on board her yacht Britannia, the world's largest (412 ft. long), best staffed (a crew of 254) and most expensive (more than $5 million a year to maintain). But even in the balmy Mexican Pacific, the Queen fretted about the rough California seas ahead. The gray, foreboding skies settled in just before Britannia slid up to San Diego's Broadway Pier a week ago last Saturday...
...board the aircraft carrier Ranger, she talked to the pilot of a one-passenger A-7 Corsair ("So you are all on your own in there?" said she. "Yes ma'am," said he) and met a sailor called Groucho Marx. The Queen (who is Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom) and Prince Philip, turned out in his Admiral of the Fleet's dress blues, had a wardroom lunch with 50 Ranger officers. The menu included lobster, despite Her Majesty's widely supposed aversion to eating shellfish abroad,* and wine, thanks to a Washington waiver...
That was about the only celebration not planned for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their ten-day visit to the West Coast. After lunch aboard U.S.S. Ranger (where a sailor, Devon Rowlands, said it had been "a bigger deal when Suzanne Somers visited in 1981"), they were off to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (where they were given photos of sea slugs) and the San Diego Zoo (where the animals' lunch was delayed so they would be friskier...