Word: climbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maybe we can. Looked at now, his pictures seem like late aftershocks of fascism. They just happened to blow up in the pages of Vogue. Newton's memoir all but laughs off the worst of Nazism, but leaf through his saw-toothed magazine work or climb the barbed wire of White Women, his first, unforgettable photo book, and you find yourself remembering what D.H. Lawrence said of Herman Melville: "Choosingly, he was looking for paradise. Unchoosingly, he was mad with hatred of the world." The Helmut Newton we meet in Autobiography is the one looking for paradise...
...consider what will happen without regulation. Medicare recipients will be left with something like a voucher that will almost immediately lose its value as drug costs continue their dizzying climb. If the benefit is administered through private insurance companies, recipients will be left to navigate a notoriously treacherous market to try to find a package they can afford, which will quickly become impossible. Either insurers will raise premiums out of reach, or they will offer deals so skimpy that they are not worth buying. Medicare recipients will end up paying for the profits of these companies, essentially middle...
Father Roman is used to feeling his shoulders brush against the stucco walls in this quick, but steep climb. He is in charge of a group of several monks that operate the bells on an everyday basis as well as more elaborate orchestras on holidays...
...nation's most spectacular landscapes--the Tetons in Wyoming, the Sawtooths in Idaho, Joshua Tree National Park in California--their footprints are closely scrutinized, and a nationwide debate is under way between climbers and federal land-management agencies on what and where people should be permitted to climb...
Janke was preparing for a two-day, 1,100-ft. climb last week on Yosemite's Washington Column. He proudly showed off a device that climbers are adopting to reduce an unpleasant residue of their sport--a sealed plastic drum on a drag rope to carry human waste off the cliff. In the early days of climbing, people bivouacking halfway up a rock face would throw their waste to the ground below. "Today that's simply unacceptable," says Janke...