Word: intrepid
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...hard to know what they would make of it today. After fighting off the likes of Madonna (who got married in 2000 in the castle that was built on the original Viking site) and Robbie Williams (who celebrated his birthday there in March of this year), the intrepid Norsemen would probably not recognize their 1,000-year-old home. Where once there were serfs, there are now staff, and a golf course stands on former grazing land. Such is the world of 21st century castles. From Scotland to southern England, castles have always been among Britain 's most popular tourist...
Predicting the future is risky business--especially when folks can easily judge for themselves how your crystal-ball gazing turned out. But our intrepid team of reporters was up to the challenge. So, read on for our top choices, best hopes and educated guesses about what consumers will want to wear, eat, drink and play in the days, weeks and months ahead...
...last January’s Primal Scream, intrepid residents of “Mathergrad” wore Soviet-style attire and blasted the strains of the USSR national anthem. “Everything became more and more Soviet as things went on,” recalls Hunter S. Maats ’04, who painted himself red with a yellow hammer and sickle on his chest for the naked run around the Yard...
...five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through an unfamiliar jungle. All of which makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours...
Fortunately for Hillenburg (and for the star potential of the intrepid square-pantsed man-child of Bikini Bottom), Hasselhoff was excited by the opportunity. “He didn’t even think about it,” the director recalls, because “he has kids and they love the show...