Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountaineers up the ice-cliffs and along the ridges of the upper camp, and then not see the final moment of triumph at the very top. Although Hollywood would never have committee this scene, T. R. Stobart, the expedition's capable cameraman-mountaineer, could scarcely be expected to pack his equipment to the pinnacle and film the others as they arrived...
...extravagance that accompanies thoughtless sinning and specious repentance provides the film's humor while a pack of servants contribute the low comedy necessary for most pieces of specific sophistication. As high seduction reigns in the drawing room, the boot-black corners the chambermaid in the kitchen in mocking counter point...
...singsong chant of an auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale...
...major Scarlatti sonatas which displayed to an extreme degree elements of exotic Spanish fury. These elements are all the more powerful in Scarlatti because they seem to burst forth from the refined and lyrical Italian style in which he was trained. For me, Mr. Kirkpatrick's playing reached its pack in these works. The deliberateness of his tempi and the tension of his phrasing gave the impression of enormous energy just barely under control, yet the control was always there and by its very presence indicated the extent of that energy...
...before. He stood respectfully for The Star-Spangled Banner, then straightened a bit more as the band struggled through the Luxembourg national anthem, Ons Hémecht (Our Homeland). At the starter's gun, medium-built (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) Barthel was off with the pack, running smoothly and easily with his short-legged stride...