Word: birdmen
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...straight from the Super Bowl, U.S. reporters have their most penetrating questions ready (How tall do you have to be to qualify for the giant slalom?), having just reminded themselves that luge is the French word for Flexible Flyer. At Sarajevo four years ago, intent on seeing those marvelous birdmen sail off their 90-meter sliding boards, two sportswriters hopped an unattended ski lift. Halfway up the foggy mountain, the one from Atlanta asked the handsomer one from New York, "Is this more dangerous than you thought?" The chair seemed to tilt away, leaving them hugging the frame and dangling...
...combined event and that it involves a 70-meter leap one day along with a 15-km mush the next, who will believe that just about the best in the world at the moment is someone from Colorado named Kerry Lynch? Vermonter Jeff Hastings, one of those ski-jumping birdmen only casually acquainted with gravity, won a World Cup event in December at Lake Placid. Not only are hopes high, but the cause for hope is real and a bit exhilarating (see following stories...
...look heavenward in September, you may catch a glimpse of a drifting cloud, a soaring bird, or a Harvard pilot. "Up in the air, Harvard Birdmen" is the clarion call of the newly accredited Flying Club...
...BIRDMEN OF NEVADA STATE
...Tombs" house of detention in New York City, this film offers a brutally honest slice of prison life, and it is completely devoid of the mawkish hand wringing that has characterized most other American jailhouse movies. There are no bad-guy guards to hiss at, no latter-day Birdmen of Alcatraz to root for. Writer Miguel Pinero, who served five years at Sing Sing for armed robbery and is currently under indictment for other crimes, asks the audience to see his characters for exactly what they...