Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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High in the Himalayas, Araceli Segarra lays an aluminum ladder across an icy crevasse. Actually, it's two ladders lashed together, a bridge that wobbles precariously when the crampons on her clunky boots clang against the rungs. She glances below into infinite space. You share the view, and gulp. "When you look down, you wonder how deep is that crevasse," says Segarra's voice-over. "Well, I don't want to find out." Your stomach is already making the trip...
...these days, when it comes to Truth, Justice and the American Way, Justice -- as in the Juducial Branch -- seems to be doing most of the talking. Well, Ken, it was the Supreme Court who brought you Monica, and Judge Johnson who let you get all the way up the ladder with Bruce Lindsey and the Secret Service. But SCOTUS giveth, and SCOTUS taketh away. As one lucky criminal (not a President) says with heavy irony in The Star Chamber (1983), "God bless f---ing America...
That would be the end of a winning record for the Crimson, however. The slide down the winning ladder began with the team's trip to California in early October...
Rubin "has a very strong conscience to help those on the bottom of the economic ladder," he says...
...part of the industry, so I'm obviously pleased that [sports] have a place of prominence," Brown says. "But far too many people see it as dominant, and they see it as a way of climbing the socioeconomic ladder. So it does, for some people, have an inordinate emphasis...