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DIED. DICK DURRANCE, 89, American ski racer who developed some of the most notable ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains; in Carbondale, Colo. After retiring from competition--with 17 national titles, an achievement that later got his face engraved on the medal awarded by the U.S. Ski Association--he became manager of the Aspen Skiing Corp. in 1947, ultimately transforming a three-run mountain into an international resort destination...
Central to the show is Gleeson's 1939 work The Attitude of Lightning Towards a Lady-Mountain. Bristling with fire and ice, its riveting depiction of a female-shaped peak of laval rock being forged by the hand of lightning suggests both the irrationality of creation and the immutability of physics. It came as a thunderbolt in more ways than one. Not only did its showing at the inaugural Contemporary Art Society exhibition in Melbourne galvanize a whole movement around the Down-Under Dal?, but its purchase 51 years later by Sydney art lovers James Agapitos and Ray Wilson began...
DIED. ULRICH INDERBINEN, 103, legendary Swiss mountain guide known as "King of the Alps," who summited the 4,478-m-high Matterhorn some 370 times; in Zermatt, Switzerland. Inderbinen, who retired at 95, once said he was "the third most photographed attraction in Zermatt, after the Matterhorn and the goats...
...values--of sureness, I guess--about who I am, where we all fit, what our role is on this planet." Kerry is fascinated, he says, by various religious traditions, and in the 1980s he went to Israel with Jewish friends and read the Sermon on the Mount on the Mountain of Beatitudes. He says he and his wife Teresa also visited Capernaum, the site on the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is said to have performed healing miracles. Kerry adds that learning last year that his paternal grandparents were Jewish "opens a wonderful window actually onto...
...work on a spreadsheet in the den while you walk down memory lane in the living room. The trick to using a media player is to make sure all your files are clearly labeled and organized into folders of manageable size. Otherwise you will find yourself scrolling through a mountain of content, searching for your brother's wedding album. You have your audience's attention only for so long...