Word: cliff
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...spot Cliff Robertson and Sally Kirkland... Cathy Moriarty and David Hasselhoff. Weird Al Yankovic here.... Peter Fonda there. I notice Michael Bolton dodging Darva Conger, and I see Amanda Plummer arrive with her beau Tobe Hooper, director of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It's like watching 20 years of "Entertainment Tonight" compressed into two hours...
...quickly regained form and took the third set 6-3, putting UNLV up 3-1. Similarly, at No.4 singles junior William Lee won a second set tiebreak. Lee, however, had the momentum and defeated Greg Sorkin 6-3 in the final set. At the same time, No. 1 freshman Cliff Nguyen won a thriller, 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4), to tie the match at three apiece and force team doubles...
...announced target that has caused the most serious and concerted outcry from other nations, including some Muslim ones like Pakistan, is at Bamiyan, about 100 miles northwest of Kabul. There, in a valley, about a mile of soft-stone cliff is honeycombed with caves, many of them bearing ancient Buddhist wall paintings dating back to around the 4th to the 5th century A.D. The core of this already much defaced religious center, as it once was, consists of two gigantic standing figures of Buddha, recessed into the cliffs sometime between the 3rd and 6th centuries. The larger of them...
...real. The way his nose wrinkles, and then the way his head retreats, when he holds the shreds of Ann's dress up for a close inspection. The way he erupts in rage, an animal snarl taking over his face, when he sees that Ann is escaping down the cliff (and with another male, at that!). The way he gently lowers her to the ledge atop the Empire State when he realizes he is weakening...
Kong dies, so it's sad, but the world he brought with him was still better than the one I was in: made-up, perfect, grand, a matte painting of a path up a vine-covered cliff, dramatically lit by a shaft of sunlight through a break in the clouds. I could interpose it between myself and the depressed new-suburban vista that surrounded...