Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have come," a servant advised Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The Prime Minister took the news stoically, gathered his wife and children on the lawn of the official residence, had coffee and ordered his bags packed. He then moved to the Governor's Mansion in the nearby hill resort of Murree, some 30 miles away. Behind padlocked iron gates, guarded by paratroopers, Bhutto was comfortably confined with an aide and a special shipment of books. The leader of the coup, Pakistan's self-effacing army chief of staff, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, was not even mentioned...
...Paul Taylor Dance Company has never lacked spirit. Far from it. But last week as the 13-member troupe opened its fourth summer season at Lake Placid, N.Y., its mood seemed more buoyant and carefree than ever before. On the stage of the Adirondack resort's Center for Music, Drama and Art, there were the usual sprints, baseball slides and staggers. A woman flew through the air and, miraculously, a man appeared out of nowhere to catch her. Four men in dinner jackets pranced madly around like stallions crashing the Gong Show. Dancers dove to the floor and scrambled...
Prisoners resort to all sorts of stratagems to throw a dog off the trail. Some escapees have sprinkled pepper on their shoes or changed clothes -to no avail. Sloshing through a stream works, at least until the fugitive steps on dry ground and the dog is able to pick up the scent again. Surprisingly, a runaway's best defense is dry weather, which can often blend all local smells together, making them indistinguishable to a hound. Thus when thunderstorms hit the Cumberlands last week after a dry spell, Don Daugherty knew by his old mountaineer's instinct that...
Burford, now 47, still lives with his wife Fern in a subdivision house in Elkins, W. Va., but is planning a six-bedroom chalet at Snowshoe, a big new ski resort near by. He owns that...
Nonetheless, the battle of the sexes turns out, as ever, to be a minor holocaust. The combatants: one wife and two husbands. The first husband (Rip Torn) arrives incognito to strike up a friendship with the second husband (John Heard), an artist at a Swedish resort hotel. Systematically, satanically, the older man destroys the younger. He suggests that he give up painting to become a sculptor and then deplores his sculpting. He arouses fears about his health, plants doubts about his wife's fidelity and certainties about her leeching parasitism...