Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Trendy types who party in their redwood tubs built for two or four or more may be buoyed by some notion that they are making a splash in 1980s fashion. But Architect and Social Critic Bernard Rudofsky pulls the plug on all that. "Why, in the Middle Ages," says Rudofsky, "people ate their dinner, conducted business, feuded, made love and even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long...
Debbie Zimic, another freshman, also debuted with a splash this fall. Blessed with talent in all four strokes, Zimic has swum well in all events ranging from 500 free to 100 back. Although her real strength lies in the Individual Medleys, she will probably be called upon to help fill the gaping hole in the Crimson backstroke lineup...
...suprised that none of them are swimming. Life lines mark out the "legal swimming area" in which the water is never more than chest deep. Only a few of the more adventurous men actually swim; most cling to floats or the lines and splash about. Our swimming draws stares; the lifeguards warn us that it is dangerous to go out too deep and then asks us if we have any Taiwanese girlfriends yet. He speaks only the native Taiwanese language and very little English so our conversation is stilted, but he does manage to tell us that native Taiwanese swim...
...first with a splash of Reagan blue, but Cronkite scores...
...Looking over his shoulder at the epidemic of blue, David Brinkley observed: "It's beginning to look like a suburban swimming pool." Other NBC staffers took to calling it "Lake Reagan." New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware and South Carolina (18 electoral votes) fell into the drink with a resounding splash at 8:15:21 p:m. E.S.T., and NBC flashed the words REAGAN WINS! on the home screens. Thus the network that has been mired in third place in ratings had won the prize for speed...