Word: eared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down on the runway, the huddle of welcomers in fur parkas and boots shuffled about enthusiastically at the edge of the airport. They would have cheered, but when the wind howls in southwest Alaska, why bother? Inside the plane, the musicians stretched, checked their thermal underwear, down booties, sweaters, ear muffs and fur coats and hats. Then they stepped out the door into the frozen flats of Bethel, Alaska (pop. 2,500, predominantly Eskimo). "We can't believe you're here," said Nancy Hohman, principal of the Bethel elementary school. Shivering against the 5°-below-zero weather...
...attempt on Mr. Mailer himself. The denouement of the film came, we are informed, when on the last day of the week Mr. Rip Torn attacked Mr. Kingsley Mailer with a seriously weilded hammer, hit him on the head with the flat of it, and in return had his ear bitten bloody. We wonder whether Mr. Mailer might really have been more pleased with the way the film emerged if the assasin had attacked more viciously, the victim had pleaded vainly for protection from enraptured onlookers, and had died bloodily before the cold eyes of the camera. We of course...
...stodgy and underdeveloped, even within the limitations of the Agassiz's stage. And Marshall Pihl's set--although it boasts a revolving center--is not what you call inspired. But I think I'll choose instead to end with Paul Schommer's musical direction, which, to my untutored ear, handles well the supple score, maintaining a nice balance between its melodic strings and mellow horns...
...Ear Pull. While there was no one to stand up to Tookoome in ipirautaqturniq, there was competition aplenty in aqraorak and nalukataak. Mickey Gordon, 23, an Eskimo from Inuvik, and Reggie Joule, a sophomore at the University of Alaska, battled for honors in aqraorak. The event consists of trying to kick a sealskin ball dangling from a pole. Kicking furiously aloft, Gordon came within a toe of breaking his own world record of 8 ft. 2 in. Joule -all 5 ft. 5 in. of him-performed just as brilliantly, though it must be remembered that aqraorak is not his forte...
Many of the native contests held at Whitehorse evolved from the self-torture games devised by the Eskimos long ago. Explains Roger Kunayak, another University of Alaska student: "The traditional Eskimo life included lots of pain-hunger, cold, frozen ears. So indoors we would torture ourselves to get used to the pain." To drive home his point, Kunayak swept the field in his own fearful event, the knuckle hop, by hopping 40 ft. on his toes and knuckles. Other such tests of mettle include the finger pull (two combatants locking middle fingers and pulling until one hollers uncle...