Word: cliff
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...qualities associated with great driving--steely concentration, hand-eye coordination, a killer instinct--fairly stink of machismo. Think of a film about women and cars, and you get Thelma & Louise, in which the leads' big act of defiance is to drive off a cliff to their deaths. Actresses do show up in the car-chase genre, but they are essentially decals, irrelevant to the movies' obsessions. (The only genuinely sexual moment in 2F2F is when two new cars are unveiled for Walker and Tyrese. Their eyes bug out as if Britney and Halle had just stripped for them.) Car-movie...
Metallica has survived every heavy-metal cliche known to man. The original bassist, Cliff Burton, died in a horrendous 1986 tour-bus accident. In 1991, seven years after This Is Spinal Tap, the band put out its own black album. A year later, lead singer James Hetfield was nearly immolated onstage by some bad pyro. Metallica has even committed the ultimate sin of heavy-metal piety: the classical album, with the sheepish help of some cellists in the San Francisco Symphony...
...AFFAIRS "The Mae Klong is the most beautiful river in Thailand," said Chai, our Burmese guide, as we slid down a gentle series of rapids in our red rubber raft. Transfixed by the multitude of rainbows suspended in a giant curtain of spray tossed up before a fern-dappled cliff, we found it difficult to argue...
With only one senior—co-captain Oli Choo—on the squad, the Crimson bounced back from a slow spring start to win the conference and advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Four of its top players—Dave Lingman, Cliff Nguyen, Mark Riddell and George Turner—were juniors, and No. 2 singles player Jonathan Chu was a sophomore...
...never know, either they come in and they dust us or you get your fingernails down a little bit before they knock you off the cliff, and then you hope they climb up so you can look eye-to-eye,” Fish said...