Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name of Sidney Frey. Audiophiles alert for a vicarious thrill can hear awesome testimony to his demand for accuracy on a forthcoming Audio Fidelity album titled Sound Effects II. During his campaign in Brooklyn, Frey staged six crashes (by sending one wreck at the end of a tow rope hurtling into another), but the calculated carnage was a minor incident in his tireless pursuit of sound. Audio Fidelity's Frey, 40, has already trapped a hurricane (Donna), recommissioned an obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed mewing seagulls with a boxful of chicken guts, eavesdropped...
...they say, Loeb Director Robert H. Chapman is in an impossible position. Answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, he has been forced to walk a tight-rope all year. As a result, he has had to adopt a conciliatory, rather than positive, attitude. Students were not happy to see spats between Chapman and eminent visitors Eric Bentley and Lillian Hellman, and they fear that other New York theatre personalities may now hesitate to come here...
...artifacts that Bar-Adon quietly described as "probably archaeologically sensational": 432 copper, bronze, ivory and stone decorated objects that seem to be mace heads, scepters, crowns, powder horns, tools and weapons. Ranging in size from 3 in. to 15 in., the collection is ornamented with geometric patterns, herringbone and rope designs, beautifully sculpted ibex and deer. The age of the treasure (about 3300 B.C.) and the mystery surrounding the chalcolithic people who carved it have whetted Bar-Adon's appetite for further exploration...
...facts of life, thought the only difference between men and women was that men, for some odd reason, had to shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play with his toy soldiers or flog a dachshund suspended by a rope from the ceiling. "In later life," writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this gap in her experience." In later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life...
...there in 1936. The ice was too shallow for their ice pitoris, too deep for their rock pitons. Anchored only by their hand picks, the four were inching upwards when Kinshofer suddenly fell. Sorhehow the other three managed to absorb his shock when he hit the end of the rope. Gingerly the team passed "death bivouac," where two members of the first north wall team froze to death in 1935. The fourth night out, watching his tiny, portable barometer fall ominously, Hiebeler began to pray that the weather would hold. It did: the morning was cloudless...