Word: mountains
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Among those featured at the Cultural Show Saturday night will be the Mountain Brothers, an Asian-American hiphop group that has recently signed with Columbia Records for an album this spring, Chung said...
When Street won the silver at Lillehammer in 1994, the freckle-faced 22-year-old instantly vaulted beyond the celebrity of any run-of-the-hill medalist, thanks to her peek-a-boo catchy name, a superabundance of personality and a mountain-hippie upbringing. During the next two years, she matured into a dominant athlete as well. She not only became the first American to win a World Cup downhill title but did it two years in a row. Now she's rich too, from endorsement deals with the likes of Nike, United Airlines and Chap Stick. Her signature cross...
Besides her physical conditioning, Street is preparing her mind for her big day at Hakuba, where she learned the downhill course last winter by riding down the mountain on a coach's back. (She'll race in the super-G as well.) Picabo isn't letting public expectations rattle her. "I always put more pressure on myself than anyone could ever put on me. I create that pressure, so therefore I own that pressure," says Street, a believer in meditation and Zen-like attitudes. Hers is a far cry from the old days of the downhill, when some...
...halfpipe confrontation will take place in a semicylindrical course (394 ft. long and 12 ft. deep) in which riders perform like skateboarders, executing flips and rotations before a panel of judges. The giant slalom in Nagano will involve threading through gates along a 3,100-ft. run down the mountain...
Sheriff Jules Clement is the man in charge of keeping the town's cooped-up energies contained. A local boy who's seen the city lights during a stint in New York as a social worker, he'd rather be standing in a mountain trout stream than making his daily rounds, which are mostly devoted to tire slashings, acts of birdbath vandalism and hunting accidents. As an example of what Harrison calls "that final anomaly, a liberal officer of the law," Clement would just as soon not crack most cases, aware that the bulk of them boil down to ignorance...