Word: pitons
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...bold, simple lines. The film speaks to the viewer on a visceral level. Its quiet moments are sublime, packed with unspoken emotion as Andi dances across vertical rock walls, Toni looks out at the dark mountains at night with an expression as inscrutable as the mountains themselves, and the piton hammers into the rock face with a defiant chink...
...wish the airlines would abolish all bargain fares. They could then lower the exorbitant regular fares to more reasonable levels, thus sparing themselves the ill will of disgruntled would-be passengers. Margaret Piton Montreal...
...housewife, to employment as a professional baseball umpire. Two years ago Mrs. Gera won a contract to serve as an umpire in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. But before she could harness up to call her first game, her contract was declared "disapproved and invalid" by Phillip Piton, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues...
...night, they slept roped to the side of the mountain, inside a Harding-designed hammock-tent that was suspended from several pitons. They usually climbed from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., and during the entire ordeal found only three ledges wide enough to stand on. There were two falls during the ascent: Harding cut his hands and legs after a piton gave way; Caldwell took a similar spill, "slithering down like a ride in an amusement park." Both men were in good condition...
...runaround. New York-Penn's President Vincent McNamara rejected her first application because of the lack of adequate facilities for women and the language used by players. When she threatened to take her case to the Human Rights Division, McNamara relented-only to be overruled by Piton...