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...still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people schwankers, or summon up mountain climbers known as Mont-Blanckers, and just when you'd exhausted yourself guessing how low Nash would stoop for a rhyme, you'd learn at the end of the line that he never stoops, he conquers. An editor's note in the recent collection "Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor...
...costs didn't deter ordained minister and balloon pilot Stephen Blucher, 60, who opened his own ballooning company, Rocky Mountain Hot Air Lines, 18 years ago in Colorado Springs, Colo. "The freedom that you feel up in a balloon, the majesty of the scenery below and the camaraderie you get from crewing can't be found in any other sport that I can think of," says Blucher, who has even performed weddings on his balloons...
...deal A pint-size version of the off-road mountain scooters found in ski resorts, it comes in metallic blue or burgundy chrome, has front and rear breaks and an oversize skateboard platform...
...pursuit of all things beautiful began in dance. As a teen, Riefenstahl started taking lessons without the permission of her father, a Berlin plumber. In 1924, hobbled by a knee injury, she went to see Arnold Fanck's Mountain of Destiny, part of the Bergfilm (mountain film) genre that set its scenes improbably high in the mountains. Enthralled, she saw the movie repeatedly and eventually met Fanck. He cast Riefenstahl in his next film, The Holy Mountain, and for the next several years, she acted, did her own stunts (one critic dubbed her Ölige Ziege - Oily Goat...
CRYING WOLF: Author Renee Askins lives in tiny Wilson, Wyoming (pop. 10,000), with four dogs, three parakeets, her husband, folk-singing legend Tom Rush, and their three-year-old daughter. The rugged Jackson Hole lifestyle suits Askins just fine. Her new book, "Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild" (Doubleday) describes how she endured death threats and political attacks in her struggle to restore wolves to Yellowstone National Park. When Askins came onto the scene, every wolf in the west, including those within Yellowstone National Park, had been killed off systematically over the course...