Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. There are some fetching small touches: off to one side is an ersatz ice ruin and a skull-shaped ice cave...
...full-blown work of genius at age 17 in the dazzling, quicksilver Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, the most successful purely instrumental interpretation of Shakespeare ever written. Yet Mendelssohn had the emotional range to evoke the craggy, forbidding atmosphere of the Hebrides in his "Fingal's Cave" Overture, summon up the combative spirit of the Scottish highlands in his Third Symphony and capture the religious fervor of Lutheranism in the "Reformation" Symphony. His was a winning, unaffected, protean talent that, like Mozart's or Schubert's, was snuffed out too early by his death...
...socializing than sweating. "The joke was that at the club you never knew when somebody would tap you on the shoulder and ask you to dance," recalls Sweeney, 32. Rather than stop exercising, he sank $40,000 into the unfinished basement of his Rockville, Md., home. Dubbed Sweeney's Cave, it is now paneled in pale birch, carpeted in light blue and crammed with gym equipment. Among its features: a bench press, an arm-curling machine, lower-back- and leg-strengthening devices and a chest builder. Sweeney, who is the owner of an auto-painting and body shop, boasts, "Nobody...
...prosecutorial cave-in may breathe new vitality into the United Democratic Front, a multiracial coalition of more than 600 community organizations that claims 1.5 million supporters across South Africa. The organization has become the principal voice of dissent against Pretoria's policies of racial separation. Still, the government of State President P.W. Botha last week reminded its opponents it will not tolerate even the most peaceful protest. In Cape Town, some 200 demonstrators gathered on a beachfront carrying lighted candles, singing and chanting. After warning them that the vigil was illegal, police dispersed the crowd with plastic whips...
Football has been rather too unmellow for the Brownies, who prefer a Saturday afternoon in a damp cave exploring all sorts of new fungi. "Oh, wow, look at the mushrooms...