Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public fancy, ski racers, and especially downhillers, are barbarians, berserkers, wearers of iron hats with cow horns sticking out of them. Pirmin, from a minor resort town near Saas-Fee (which is a minor resort near Zermatt), is the sort of nice young man your mother wants your sister to meet. He does not look as if he eats nails. He has curly, reddish-blond hair, an elf's pointy nose and a shy, boyish grin, behind which is real shyness, behind which...
...fall, but it was he who first encouraged Pirmin to race. Pirmin's girlfriend Moni Julen, a pretty, dark-haired ski instructor from Zermatt, is a cousin of his friend Max and is accepted as part of this tight, protective mountain clan, which includes Heidi, 20, his younger sister and a downhiller on the national team. As a teenager, Pirmin spent a year cooking in the hotel kitchen, and now, during a short Christmas break, Mama Ida joshes contentedly that bookings are full, so it is good that Pirmin is there to give them a hand. The ski hero, whose...
...first 40 minutes of the show were devoted exclusively to songs from ...Nothing like the Sun, which were punctuated by Branford Marsalis' hot saxophone on "Sister Moon" and Sting's soliloquy about bad American tea and whether the Boston Tea Party had anything to do with...
Edge is seeded sixth, while Princeton's Demer Holleran, Jenny's older sister, is second. Edge and Demer Holleran are the highest ranked collegiate players...
...calm, self-assured presence of Ferraro has remained with me ever since. Over the weekend she took us on a tour of the Capitol, treated us to lunch in the members' Dining Room, and let my sister and me vote in her place. She explained the sights and people to us as she walked confidently down the halls, stopping to discuss an upcoming vote with her colleagues...