Word: rope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, than any of the snow or rocks around it. Sprawled facedown on the mountainside, with arms outstretched and hands dug into the frozen ground, lay the bleached, mummified remains of a man. It was Mallory, his body almost perfectly preserved in the thin, dry air, a safety rope around his waist, and still partly clad in remnants of his tattered cotton, wool and tweed climbing clothes, the ragged collars stitched with markings G.L. MALLORY. He had apparently tumbled wildly down the slope, tried to arrest his descent with his hands, then died shortly thereafter--"still fighting, still gripping...
...thought about how amazed the person who wrote the book five years ago would have been if he had been told this was going to happen. At that point, I was unemployed and ghostwriting teen horror novels for money. I thought I was coming to the end of my rope as a writer and I would have to give up my dream. But things have turned around since them...
...aisles and risers with remarkable grace. The music was loud and well suited to the complicated hip-hop and jazz moves that are Mainly Jazz's style. Between the charming chair-dancing routine in Salt and Pepa's "Shoop" and a seductive rendition of Janet Jackson's "Velvet Rope," there came a point in the performance where neither Salt nor Pepa nor Ms. Jackson herself could have better choreographed the dancing to the words, melody and soul of the music...
...this time our position in line has greatly improved. We can see where MTV has set up rope corrals and a stage where, later in the day, there will be live entertainment. A woman in "Wannabee a VJ" garb raises a megaphone and addresses our section of the queue...
...Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly knotted rope," the young couple romancing as "the apples hung heavy in the late-day sun, the leaves stirred in the wind." The danger in such textured simplicity, though, is that the book can seem not quite spare enough for parable, yet not quite fleshed out enough for nuanced moral drama...