Word: canyoneering
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John Sloan, 77, who has spent the past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
Georgia O'Keeffe spends half of each year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...
...settled down in Colorado, crossed the high wire 86 times in all. His children grew up; his wife died. The world forgot him. He was old and arthritic. Three years ago, hungry for applause, he looked up at the high wire still hanging rustily across the canyon, decided to walk it once again...
...Resort Owner Jack Fowler, son of the original owner and a brother of Novelist Gene Fowler, was horrified. He refused vehemently. The professor kept pleading. This year Fowler gave in, strung a new and shorter wire (320 ft. long and 125 ft. high) lower in the canyon...
Last week, on his 82nd birthday, the professor put on his tiny, camel-hide shoes. He picked up his 24-ft., 24-lb. balancing pole and stepped out into yawning space. In mid-canyon he stopped, knelt creakily until one knee touched the wire, lurched up, went on. Pale, panting, drenched with sweat, he reached the other side...