Word: ices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supai is inacessible all winter: the dirt roads are washed out and the cliffs are slicked with ice. The Havasupai Indian tribe close the half-dozen tourist cabins they operate, send their children to the government boarding school, and tend their few sheep...
...scrupulous about caviar, for instance, that he once opened seven jars in a row before finding one that he considered satisfactory. He insisted on hand-dried Baccarat glasses and the finest wines, although he would also serve a bottle of milk to lohn F. Kennedy in a silver ice bucket as if it were champagne...
First, there is Harvard's 18-day Iny-off. Exams kept some of Coach Cooney Welland's boys completely off the ice, and the whole squad will have had only three days of practice together before the game...
...perspective of half a century, the works retain their stature, and the figure of Flaherty is magnified in time. In The Innocent Eye, Biographer Arthur Calder-Marshall depicts Flaherty as an extravagant example of an extravagant type: the artist-adventurer. A great shaggy polar bear of a man with ice-blue eyes and a smile that blazed like a swallowed sun, he created a life as splendid...
...months in London and Paris, and in 1923 Paramount's Jesse Lasky gave Flaherty $250,000 to make a similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...