Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first attempt at snowboarding can be a humbling experience. Professional skiers and dazzling skateboarders often start at ground zero, and in some cases they stay there. For the novice the only controls are stop (sit down) and go (very fast). "My butt may be sore, but that's the price you pay for a thrill," says Symms. Fortunately, after a harrowing start, most newcomers master the art as quickly as they fall down. "By your third day you can be skiing slopes that beginning skiers wouldn't touch," says David Alden, a former amateur snowboard champion...
...Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right ear, as if throwing a fastball. The spear sails up, too high, and at the apex, points straight skyward, and then collapses in the air, subsiding downward on its butt, ignominiously, like one of the early failed rockets from Cape Canaveral. Lord Delamere would not wish to hunt lion with the American...
...into the house. One day a large male baboon pursued Thelma Hall down the veranda and into the house. The baboon came inside after her. She remembers its awful yellow fangs. John Hall came after the baboon with his shotgun, but the gun jammed. Hall jabbed with the gun butt, and the baboon started chewing it up. Finally, Hall whacked the baboon on the head with the gun butt, and it ran under a bed, where Hall finally shot...
THIS WEEK IS SHAPING UP TC be one of those rare periods when the citizens of a country engage in some serious self-reflection. The United States is settling its collective butt into a huge national armchair to ponder the possibilities presented by the ABC mini-series, Amerika, and patriots everywhere are swilling wine coolers and buying cars in celebration of President's Day. Aside from these nationalistic excesses, though, Dewitt has noticed several movies now playing that attempt to engage the viewer in the greater questions of life. Do we exist in a world that conforms to some sort...
Most of Sellar's staging ideas are as clever and witty as one would expect from this incorrigibly bratty director. Perhaps the best scene is a long aria in which Caesar announces how he will kick much Egyptian butt in an upcoming battle while his bodyguard gets chased around the stage by Egyptian commandos...