Word: height
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither Gau nor Weathers, both in critical condition, would have survived were it not for Lieut. Colonel Madan K.C., a Nepalese helicopter pilot. Choppers seldom venture above 6,000 meters: at a certain height, the thin air reduces their lift. Yet Madan flew up to a giant cross the climbers had painted on the Everest ice with red Kool-Aid. There he hovered, runners just touching the snow's treacherous surface, as Gau was loaded on board. Madan flew Gau down to the base camp, then repeated the process with Weathers. It was the second-highest helicopter rescue in history...
...personal level, I was relieved to read what Mathews has discovered about the electoral power of height. My father happened to believe strongly that any American boy could grow up to be President, and since I was the nearest American boy at hand, I am someone who, like Colin Powell, has faced a certain amount of presidential pressure...
...like to think that I wouldn't have agreed to that photo op that called for peering out of a tank hatch while wearing what looked like the helmet of a corporal in the wonk corps. But if height is truly destiny, I would have been skunked by George Bush anyway...
Edward Daugherty is shown at the height of his powers in The Flaming Corsage, when his play of the same name scandalizes proper Albanians in 1912. In Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, set in the mid-1930s, Daugherty is forgotten and senile. Katrina Taylor, his lovely, highborn wife in the new novel, was evoked in Billy, as she was in Ironweed. The leading character of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Ironweed was an alcoholic ex-baseball player, Francis Phelan. In the new novel he is Katrina Daugherty's ardent young lover...
...HEIGHT OF FAME...