Word: canyoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that wends into the azure sky of northwestern New Mexico like a curl of Christmas ribbon reaching toward heaven. The main sanctuary, fashioned from brown adobe and perched on a small hill, is warmed by burning pinon and scented by freshly baked bread. In the late afternoon the surrounding canyon glows with a purple twilight. At night the waters of the Chama River gossip with the birds, and the stars weave a gossamer blanket overhead. No matter what your faith, it is an easy place in which to be spiritual...
...walked through the Great Wall of China, levitated himself across the Grand Canyon and "vanished" the Statue of Liberty (though we suspect he just got it to duck underwater). Now Vegas megamagician David Copperfield attempts his most astounding feat: filling a Broadway theater with skeptical New Yorkers paying up to $67.50 a seat, drinks not included. Aided by playwright David Ives, designer Eiko Ishioka and creative adviser Francis Ford Coppola, Copperfield will present his outsize illusions in 76 shows starting Nov. 26 at the Martin Beck Theater. One secret he won't reveal: how he got Claudia Schiffer...
Your enemies are as important as your friends. Clinton's enemies: Joe Camel, the NRA, despoilers of the Grand Canyon. Dole's enemies: teachers, the N.A.A.C.P., Katie Couric, minimum-wage workers. And with friends like Newt, Dole couldn't really afford enemies. All those double-date press conferences during the budget negotiations looked like a buddy movie with Newt the star and Dole the sidekick. If Newt were really Dole's friend, he wouldn't be running around the country swinging a plastic bucket to symbolize all the money the revolution saved on congressional ice deliveries while his standard-bearer...
...women an extra 24 hours in the hospital after birth, and another saw children by the side of the road in New Jersey and said out loud, "There's a tax cut. There's another. $500." On the day Dole invoked the "Brooklyn Dodgers," Clinton went to the Grand Canyon--and with the stroke of a pen made it bigger. Clinton toured nursery schools, talked about putting the Internet in the classroom. Dole visited graveyards, and talked about estate taxes. When he dispatched top aide Scott Reed to Dallas last week to ask Ross Perot to quit the race...
Most journalists do not understand how clever these operatives are. For instance, reporters think it fiendishly clever to ask the flip-flop question. ("Sir, in 1986 you voted to permit the building of falafel stands in the Grand Canyon. Last year you opposed the bill. Isn't there a contradiction here?" Correct response: "Not at all, Ted. You're overlooking a key distinction...