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...mouth. Ah, that mouth... But he stopped talking for at least 1 min. 45:59 sec. last week. Starting sixth, wearing tasteful white-and-peach candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground. "I've been winning most...
...this is not an easy or a pleasant read. What we normally think of as "important events" are only touched on, and no event boasts an emotional spin that makes it stand out from the rest. In "The Dictionary in the Laundry Chute," the troubles of a marriage are explained in one interjection, almost as an afterthought. "Angela was wearing a starched bloused with a new straight skirt--at least, new to Ed--and a string of cultured pearls...
...taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling for a quick apocalypse? Doesn't matter. When the crisis comes, they will be as surprised as the paratrooper whose chute just wouldn't open...
...Boenish quickly points out) is illegal. One of the great early jumps, from which springs the present fad of BASE (for Buildings, Antenna towers, Spans and Earth) jumping was made in 1970 by Rick Sylvester. He skied off of Yosemite's 7,569-ft. El Capitan, popped a chute and floated down to the meadow below. Some 120 bandit jumps followed, and finally, in 1980, the park grudgingly began handing out permits, a futile and short-lived exercise in imposing bureaucracy on a sport that is inherently anarchic. Boenish, said to be among the more responsible BASE jumpers, seems...
...Chrysler car pretty soon": "Would I vote against it again? Yes. As a matter of principle and precedent, I do not feel the Government should bail out companies. As chairman of the Small Business Committee, I have lived through two years of seeing little companies go down the chute in record numbers. Having said that, do I feel Chrysler and lacocca have done a superb job? No question about it. I'm delighted to see Chrysler succeeding...