Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something constructive with the money [by setting up a crisis center] and left you feeling that they were not bitter, bitchy women," says Beverly Hills therapist Carole West. Sugar Rautbord, a divorced Chicago socialite and author of the novel Sweet Revenge, agrees. "It's not about going off a cliff like Thelma and Louise did," she explains. "It's get down to earth, raise your children, get a bank account, buy your own boat, put yourself in a position to get even if you want...
...took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century. To get a shot of the interior of one of those caves, the duo had to be lowered from the top of the cliff by means of ropes and handmade ladders...
...because rock climbing is safer and easier in the 200 or so rock-climbing gyms that have opened nationwide. These indoor Rockies look Dali surreal. Climbers scale walls up to 70 ft. high, replete with overhangs, and dangle from ceilings made of gray granite or synthetic materials that resemble cliff faces. Color-coded hand- and footholds form routes of varying degrees of difficulty...
Likewise it was Dole who watched silently last fall while the Republican field marshal Newt Gingrich marched his troops to the cliff of a government shutdown and over it. Dole went along, partly because he believed in stapling Clinton to the bargaining table and partly to keep his right wing happy. But by mid-December, Dole was talking to people in Iowa and New Hampshire nearly every day, and he could see that this was silly. Paying people not to come to work? Not paying people to come to work...
...premise behind the futuristic "Escape From L.A." is promising but proves unfulfilling. It is the early 21st century and Los Angeles has degenerated into a center of immorality and sin. The new president-for-life (Cliff Robertson) declares the United States a land of moral superiority--no smoking, no red meat, no freedom of religion. When a massive earthquake strikes southern California separating Los Angeles physically from the mainland, the president declares the new island outside America's borders and deports all immoral citizens of the U.S. to the City of Angels...