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They are of that intrepid breed called transfer students, those adventurers who after a year or two of college elsewhere tear up their roots to become part of "the Harvard experience." To most transfer, however, "the Harvard experience" is one of social isolation and bureaucratic insensitivity...
...enable its analysts, dozens of support staffers and tons of equipment to hover near the big story of the day--even if that story was almost entirely nonvisual and the participants refused to talk to the press until it was over. Brokaw wryly implied to viewers that his intrepid-correspondent posture might be a bit silly: "You may be thinking that this is not the kind of weather in which you should be standing outside talking. You may be right...
...impulse. Overnight, Daddy's little girl is a slut in Mama's eyes, and the family falls into convulsions of jealousy and hatred. Like the off-Hollywood films of John Cassavetes, A Nos Amours is less drama than psychodrama; it wears its artlessness as a badge of intrepid truth-telling. Bonnaire's artlessness though, marks her as an exotic found object and a genuine movie find...
PRESUMED DEAD. Naomi Uemura, 43, intrepid Japanese mountain climber and adventurer; after the National Park Service ended an eight-day search for him on Mount McKinley; in Alaska. Three weeks ago Uemura became the first climber to make a solo ascent of North America's highest peak (20,320 ft.) in midwinter, but he lost radio contact the next day and was last spotted by a pilot on Feb. 16. The only remnants found by searchers were his snowshoes, a diary and the two 17-ft.-long bamboo poles he used to test the firmness of snow...
...would only look like a Don Quixote," Uemura once replied when asked what drove him. "But I always want to know the limits of human endurance-or the limits of my own potentials." To his anxious friends, searching on the icy slopes this weekend, it appeared that the intrepid Japanese had finally pushed beyond even his awesome capabilities...