Word: schussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife Diana and their sister-in-law Sarah had returned to the chalet after a morning on the slopes. Though Swiss authorities had issued an avalanche warning for altitudes higher than 5,000 ft., Charles and the group rode the lift to 7,000 ft. As they prepared to schuss off the main trails, a wall of snow broke loose and roared toward the skiers. Charles and three others narrowly avoided the cascade, but two friends ( were buried in what Charles later described as a "whirling maelstrom...
...Phil says, "and were off skiing and hiking as soon as we got home. We've spent the major part of our lives in the snow." By the age of nine, the twins were the joint terrors of the Buddy Werner League races, the local punt, pass and schuss contest. Exactly when Phil slid slightly ahead is unclear, but Steve imagines it was at the starting line. "I was born four minutes later," he says, "and I've been trying to catch up ever since...
...detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down the Alps of dementia, as it did in Despair; and Fassbinder would watch, and show. He was a camera-one that hummed relentlessly until the end. More than a dozen Fassbinder films still await U.S. release...
...Winter Olympics was a watershed nonetheless: for the first time, the Games were televised daily. The telecasts introduced winter sports to the many Americans who did not know the difference between schuss and Schnee. The Games were such a European preserve that CBS, which paid a piddling $50,000 for the broadcast rights, was slow to line up sponsors for its 15 scheduled hours of live and taped reports. It was a far cry from the electronic blanket that today threatens to suffocate the Games. ABC paid $15.5 million for the rights to Lake Placid, and will spend nearly...