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...Guston himself provided a fascinating metaphor for his mid-career transformation: "I felt like an explorer who almost got to the top of Mt. Everest and somehow stopped just short and remembered and thought, 'Well, perhaps, maybe I forgot some gear,' you know, 'I forgot some equipment.' I took some side paths that looked exciting, full of possibilities. What equipment did I lack? It was a stronger contact with the thickness of things." But abandoning the summit of Mt. Everest in search of new equipment proved a bold move indeed. Completely renouncing non-figurative art at a time when...
...exhibit of Frimmer's pictures. Selecting his favorites, seeing them printed and mounted was deeply satisfying. "Looking at my photographs made me realize there were very few places in the world I wanted to go that I hadn't been, other than Antarctica and the base camp at Everest," Frimmer observed. "I can sit back and look at these pictures now and realize these places will never change in my memory because I'll never be back to see them. As beautiful as they are now, that's how they'll always...
...heal myself. It was a survival instinct." "I felt suffocated and trapped in the life I was in," says The Real World's Julie. "I certainly did a lot of growing up." Others, like Bowler, compare the experience to adventure travel. "Other people want to climb Mount Everest, but I've always wanted to go back and forward in time," she says...
...Everest, but seven Pforzheimer House seniors took on the challenge of New Hampshire's Mount Washington on Memorial...
...zipper. She assumed it was his BB gun. Every day Klebold and Harris went to school, sat in class, had lunch with their schoolmates, worked with their teachers and plotted their slaughter. People fell for every lie. "I could convince them that I'm going to climb Mount Everest, or I have a twin brother growing out of my back," says Harris. "I can make you believe anything...