Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior from Lake Tahoe points to one of the mountain landscapes on his bedroom walls, a snow-capped peak that towers next to his high school in Colorado and remarks how "disappointed" he was when he saw what the East had to offer. "There aren't really any mountains big enough for a downhill, remarks Klaussen. But this week Klaussen returns to the Rockies for his first collegiate race there in four years, the NCAA's at Park City, Utah...
Eric began spending much of his time in the mountains above Lake Tahoe. He was on a perpetual vacation: "It's great living around a resort; you spend all your time with sports." Klaussen uses his time in the mountains to take photographs, hike, do technical climbing and practice ski mountaineering, a sport that uses cross country skiis with metal edges, and strapped-on climbing skins to hike up and down the mountain...
...white stuff, of course; team member Marco Elser recalls "making sure to stay in the course at Williams, or you'd go off into the dirt." And Eric Alberecht thought it was "distracting" to have to "ski through a stream in the middle of a race" at Cannon Mountain...
...folks at ABC--the pacesetters in the cutesy trash industry. Sunday Lovers' separate scenarios--each written and directed by a different person--so completely rely on television and porno flicks that we are not surprised when the producers fall back on cliched trick endings to escape from beneath the mountain of one-liners they have created. Instead of thinking, "My, wasn't that a hair-brained half-hour, completely devoid of artistic merit," we are supposed to say, "Gee, that really did have a point, didn...
When he could play, Bill Walton was the Man Mountain of basketball, a flame-haired, 6-ft. 11-in., 225-lb. human wall beneath the basket. The true measure of his greatness was the glint in his eyes, the concentrated, almost maniacal fury that burned when he leaped to block a shot or scanned the floor before rifling an outlet pass on a fast break. That intensity made Walton one of the finest and most feared centers of his generation...