Word: mountainous
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...which inspired Manet's Dead Toreador. The painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling in this restrained image than in many a square yard of post-Caravaggian...
...speak, and it was only later, down the mountain and back in the land of the provisionally living, that it occurred to me that there was a definite question about why a man and a woman might choose a well-known body dump for a driving lesson. This was one of the number of occasions, during the two weeks my husband and I spent in EI Salvador, on which I came to understand, in a way I had not understood before, the exact mechanism of terror...
Their father, Dave Mahre, mountain manager of the ski area at White Pass, gave each child a set of skis and a sense of adventure. Last year the news of Phil's second World Cup reached his father by shortwave radio as Mahre, 55, dangled from a rope on the side of Mount Everest. "Fortunately," Phil continued, "I was gifted, and I also had a twin brother who pushed me in the sense that I always wanted to beat him. And yet, at the same time, his victories were sort of my victories too. It's hard...
...does; one with less joy for sport would likely never try. Mahre cuts his own ruts in the snow, and those who follow his tracks are apt not to finish the course. McKinney's style is frequently described as dainty. It is said that she skips down the mountain; her skis "kiss the snow." Many of the women racers are rather robust, but McKinney, at 5 ft. 4 in., 115 Ibs., is as light as a scarf. The seventh and youngest child of Hall of Fame Steeplechase Jockey Rigan McKinney, and an equestrian herself, Tamara appreciates speed no less...
...shouted their support for Mahre from chair lifts as they floated overhead toward their own peaks. The slopes adjoining the course were streaked with skiers of all levels of ability paying no attention. After the race, Mahre and Stenmark stood together for a time at the base of the mountain, still panting from their runs, Mahre bareheaded, Stenmark wearing an elfin cap topped by a ball of yarn. The ball bounced about slowly as the man who has won the most World Cup races of all shook his head, and then he shook Mahre's hand. Later, asked...