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Forty-five kilometers up the road over the Thompson Pass, in a muddy car park by the Tsaina River, is a small collection of cabins and the center of the operation. From there skiers and boarders take off in AStar helicopters and flit over the magnificent empty wilderness of the Chugach Range. Being this far north and so close to the sea, the Chugach receives an extraordinary amount of snow with a stability unmatched elsewhere. It is possible to ski or board pitches of as much as 60 degrees - truly astonishing when you consider the steepest runs in most resorts...
...played bridge until around9:30 p.m., when we dashed out to the Shepard Drugor the Midget for coffee and back by 10 p.m. Thenwe started studying Grade inflation was unknown.In the first semester of my freshman year, sevenof us made Dean's List: four B's and you were astar...
According to NTSB records, the A350B AStar helicopter has been involved in 63 accidents in the United States, killing 57 on-board passengers. It averages 3.5 accidents per 100,000 hours of flight...
...next two pieces do not live up to theballet as a whole, either. "Trust" and "Baby I'm aStar" feature the same dancers in a jazz segmentthat seems more inspired by the likes of "SaturdayNight Fever." The onrush of swinging hips severelycontradicts the dancers' classic appearances,especially of the women, en point and hair pulledinto tight buns. The dancers stream across thestage with impressive leaps and astound theaudience with lifts more characteristic of "StarSearch" dance competitions...
Slightly obscuring the weakness of the play is the general competence of the cast. Felix Aylmer is a restrained and amiable British Delegate, and Ben Astar capitalizes on a remarkable resemblance to Malenkov in a convincing, and not wholly unsympathetic portrayal of the Russian Delegate. As Mrs. Prescott, Katherine Cornell is a little hearty in her portrayal of the brilliant career-woman, but she clutches at furniture with appropriate intensity in her distraught moments...