Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, the better a skier you are the more you can enjoy the sensation of sliding downhill. Anyone with enough patience who is willing to withstand a few seasons of embarrassing uncoordination can learn to ski well, and no matter what legions of instructors say, skiing can be a self-taught discipline. All you need is someone to show you the basics...
Cross-country skiers tend to play an exclusive claim this feeling of accomplishment, but the true downhiller scorns such solitary, Thoreauvian outings. You might as well walk. Cross-country enthusiasts, however, are better suited to fully enjoy the beauty of nature in the winter...
...good friend of mine told me of his own brush with death on the trail. He went over the edge of what appeared to be a small jump and found himself staring at an eight foot drop. He told himself to relax and enjoy the ride and began to project his trajectory when he noticed a fallen tree resting on its branches directly in his path. He slammed into it at full speed, the trunk hitting him in mid-thigh. He, too, managed to ski away with only severe bruises. He skis...
Wherever you go, however you go, the important thing is to enjoy yourself at a sport that doesn't require ten-dollar lift tickets, two hour rides in search of "skiable snow," or equipment that would bankrupt the U.S. Treasury...
...actors and an ingenious plot do not necessarily make a good movie. The very cleverness of the movie's conception proves its undoing. Director Herbert Ross concentrates so much on conveying subtle layers of correspondences and contrasts that the movie is ultimately stifled by them. One is meant to enjoy all the delicate ironies of the situation presented, but because the movie consists of nothing more, it ends up being tedious. It suffers, we suffer, from the detached way in which scenes and situations are presented. The director never becomes involved with his material. He plays a game with...