Word: glaciers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Weitzman, a lawyer who represented John DeLorean and, briefly, O.J. Simpson, was an odd hire, considering his absolute lack of corporate experience. Weitzman says he left because the job became too administrative. "Steering a glacier," he says, "is not easy." Platt was ousted because he clashed with studio chairman Casey Silver. It was Silver, not Platt, who approved a slew of underperforming films, such as the Bruce Willis-Richard Gere vehicle The Jackal and the political dud Primary Colors. Silver, whose contract has been renewed, says he can turn the studio around: "We have excellent product in the pipeline...
...This is beginning to have demonstrable effects," he said, noting melting ice he saw during a recent trip to Montana's Glacier National Park. "Pretty soon, people are going to be calling the park known as Glacier the park formerly known as Glacier...
Plus the damn things groove. Artists seeking more control of their music often forget what first made them appealing. Witness Janet Jackson's cringingly self-conscious The Velvet Rope, an album so calculated to seduce that its emotional accessibility is roughly that of your average glacier. The last thing Salt 'N' Pepa would do is forget to have...
...than $1 billion in welfare-to-work grants to states, stuffed four appearances into a day's swing through New Hampshire, and paid a call on his next-door neighbor, the British embassy, to sign its condolence book for Princess Diana. He also managed a hike in Montana's Glacier National Park to highlight a talk about global warming--or was that just the heat he was feeling as the yearlong Democratic campaign-finance scandal moved squarely...
...doesn't have to be that way. Apart from its superstar attractions, the nation has scores of other national parks as well as more than 5,000 state parks that are nowhere near as heavily trafficked. The coolly serene Glacier National Park in Montana, at right, is one of them. Backcountry hikers might see grizzly bears in mountain meadows (one hopes at a distance) and icebergs in high lakes, all amid a heart-stopping landscape of lofty peaks and glacial valleys. It would be hard to find a better place to escape the heat or the crowds...