Word: everests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eugene O'Neill is a prime example of the roller-coaster ride of reputation. After his popular vogue in the '20s he went into two decades of neglect. Restored to critical approval and public favor in the mid-'50s, he began to mount an Everest of esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending...
...halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks like a very funny lab sample of Venereal Disease germs and David...
CODDLE YOURSELF. Frostbite, associated in the popular mind with polar explorers and Everest ascenders, is a real and insidious danger whenever it is freezing outside. Just ten minutes of exposure can injure ears, cheeks, tips of noses and ungloved fingers. Smoking increases the risk, since nicotine constricts blood vessels, hastening the cooling process. Nor should one drink alcohol before venturing outside. Booze opens up the blood vessels and accelerates heat loss from the body...
...that the big picture magazines were failing, "so I got into producing books and movies." Among his projects: the bestselling Marilyn, a collection of over 100 pictures of Marilyn Monroe by 24 top photographers, with text by Norman Mailer, and the movie The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Nonetheless, he wants to be considered as "an investigative journalist and not a wheeler-dealer or an entrepreneur or even a hardened hustler...
Death Revealed. Nanda Devi Unsoeld, 22, an Olympia, Wash., coed and daughter of one of the first Americans to scale Mt. Everest (in 1963); of "acute high-altitude sickness" while on an expedition with her father on Nanda Devi, the 25,645-ft. peak in the Himalayas for which she was named; on Sept...