Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone books-and for every job there are ten eager applicants, many of them temporary college dropouts looking for a fling on the slopes. The average pretax profit margin for the nation's ski areas last year was about 4% on revenues, or less than their owners would enjoy if they put their money in savings accounts...
...only a foothill by Alpine or Rocky Mountain standards, it offers what many consider the finest skiing in the East. Novices can stem their way along the four-mile-long Toll Road; experts can plummet down the narrow, twisting chutes of the National or the Goat. Everyone can enjoy the eclectic night life, which runs from fierce rock to folk singing, in the restaurants and hotels of the compact, bustling village. The average cost of a week's vacation, including meals, moderately priced sleeping accommodations* and lift tickets, but not transportation, is around...
...known as the golden age of detective fiction at the same time that it cannily manipulates them. That golden age, as a line in the script defines it, was "when every Cabinet Minister had a thriller by his bedside, and all the detectives were titled." To fully enjoy Sleuth, it is necessary to have an indulgent affection for this minor literary tradition. Shaffer is shrewd with a plot turn and smooth with breezy characterization. But he asks us, as did Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie or any other reigning monarch of the golden age, to accept too much and think...
...respect for the inherent qualities of the materials they work with. "There is an enormous appeal in the New Jewelry," says Lyon, who serves as jewelry consultant to London's River Gallery. "It has drawn in a lot of people who like its quiet, demanding skills, enjoy the tactile qualities of the metals." In lieu of gems, some of the artists, such as American Ellen Levy and Chinese Designer Susan Sung, use different-colored metals such as silver and gold, or varied textures, to free their work from monotony. For them, as Marshall McLuhan might have...
...head was then left free to think or just look out through the eyes and enjoy the scenery. Thinking, looking and walking proved to be mutually helpful activities. Oldtime writers like Henry David Thoreau thought so and wrote a lot about walking, including an essay titled Walking to be read by people who were sitting. Thoreau provided a lot of health food for thought, including an explanation of the word "sauntering," which he saw as a fermentation of the medieval pilgrim's phrase, à la Sainte Terre-to the Holy Land...