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Page's tics, fidgets and exaggerated nasalities, which have overdecorated many a characterization, here serve to heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses...
Getting tired of wholesome TV families? Sick of adorable, wisecracking children? Up to here with Cosby? Well, meet the Schreuder family. Mother is a divorced Manhattan social climber who badgers her young daughter into tears with trivial school lessons, locks her less favored son out of the house for days, and schemes to get money from her rich but miserly father in Utah. One summer she sends her two teenage boys, a pair of grungy rejects from the Dead End Kids, to stay with Gramps and steal his loot. But when he discovers the treachery and cuts off the flow...
Lucchese. Corallo may be succeeded by Neil Migliore, 53, whom Franceschini describes as a hothead capable of starting a gang war for control. A climber in the family for a decade, he runs a marble business, including the sale of tombstones, but specializes in illegal gambling...
...physiological reach. Mountaineers and M.D.s agree that above 8,000 m (26,246 ft.), a physical curtain begins to fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...world below knew none of this until the next day, when the professional guide, Ralph Summers, 30, and experienced Student Climber Molly Schula, 17, struggled back down the trail to tell the awful news. That touched off one of the biggest U.S. mountain-search rescue operations ever. Local, state and federal searchers fanned up the mountain...