Word: everest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead of winter. With unrefined malice, he dispatches the framers, among them his sister (Liv Ullman), his mistress and a lawyer. Some are garroted, others drugged or axed to death. Then Salem undoes his escape, hustles back through the snow, ascends a stone wall just slightly less perilous than Everest, clambers back into his cell, locks himself in and stretches out on his pallet for some well deserved shuteye...
...omnipotent, where no distinction is drawn between wish and deed." Even mental aberration can be a form of Utopia, maintains British Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing (see BEHAVIOR). The schizophrenic makes a journey into self, says Laing, that is every bit as awesome as exploring a jungle or climbing Mount Everest. He goes "back and through and beyond into the experience of all mankind, of the primal man, of Adam and perhaps even further into the beings of animals, vegetables and minerals...
...Natalia Makarova had demonstrated that she has that heart-stopping quality of a great dancer. As the doomed girl in Giselle, she had just executed a series of dazzling turns and was subsiding into a curtsy-the simplest of maneuvers. It was like a man who had scaled Mount Everest slipping in his shower...
After three weeks of hard work as an apprentice mountain-climbing guide at Washington's Mount Rainier, Joseph Kennedy III, 17, oldest son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, admitted, "I still get tired." The new hand is described by his boss Lou Whittaker, brother of Everest Conqueror Jim Whittaker, as "bigger than average" (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) but with "good coordination." Last week young Joe had a chance to show just how good he is by easily maintaining the brisk pace set by his mother Ethel as they breezed halfway up the slopes of Mount Rainier...
...almost. A tape recording of the 1965 performance, brought out by Everest Records, reached the U.S. in 1967. The American Record Guide gave it a review, tracing the symphony's troubled background. As a result, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 developed a tiny but devoted flock of listeners. It was only this month, however, that the original version of the symphony finally received a full-scale performance outside the Soviet Union...