If "Jersey Shore" represents everything Italians disdain about Italian-American culture, with its big hair and down-market provincialism, then the show arrived in Italy at a unique cultural moment, when the nation was transfixed by the scandals of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
He told her how he and his companions paddled that last stretch toward the mirage-like shore with everything they had -- pushing their arms through the water like oars before ultimately plunging their whole bodies into motion.
We left permanent footprints on shores Where everything else was washed away.
From a cove on Santeetlah Lake's southern half, I pushed off and paddled along undulating shores, finding everything to see and nothing.
The earthquake, in turn, created the colossal tsunami, which, when it struck the country's northeastern shores, pulverized everything in its path, forming a filthy wave made of mud, cars, buildings, houses, airplanes and other debris.
Vendors patrol the shores selling everything from sunscreen and sandwiches, to cover-ups and inflatable kiddie pools.
The new friends walked along the shore, talking about everything, and the night culminated in the group humming Beatles songs under a full moon — nothing outwardly eventful, yet it seemed at that moment that his life would change.
The island's funky north shore town has everything a second chapter surfer could want.
Both panelists lament the terrible loss of life and up to $50 billion economic hit on the New York Metropolitan area, especially, says Torie, "people on the Staten Island and New Jersey shore who lost everything and have nowhere to go".
"T2 is an extraordinary achievement; everyone on the design, engineering and shore teams have put everything they have got into this boat," Ainslie said.
