Word: skiers
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...Raised in the U.S. and Canada, Greenwood, 44, was a professional skier before acting bit him. He did TV ("St. Elsewhere"), and had meaty roles in "Double Jeopardy" and "The Sweet Hereafter." But he lacked both the star power of Kevin Costner (who plays political adviser Ken O'Donnell) and the Kennedy bones of Steven Culp (who plays Jack's brother Bobby, as he did in an earlier TV movie). So when director Roger Donaldson chose him, Greenwood was as surprised as the rest of Hollywood. "I spent a week or so lying in bed thinking, 'Oh, God, this...
...mouth. He had a near perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. If a photographer was close, he'd manage a jackknife off the low board, a rose in his buttonhole or a pretty woman on his arm. He knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier he was--moving gracefully, radiating freedom, yet somehow making all the gates. He was sardonic, often arrogant, prone to lecture. In parliamentary debate, his abrasiveness drove the opposition into spasms of rage. There's a danger Trudeau will be remembered for his style more than his achievements. That would...
...possible uses of celebrity. With a little jacknife off the low board here if a photographer was positioned right, a lively judo tussle there (again, photographers were present), a rose in his buttonhole, a pretty woman on his arm, he knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier he was - moving gracefully, radiating energy and freedom, yet somehow making all the gates...
...second straight year, Harvard failed to send a skier to NCAAs. In both the 1996-97 and the 1997-98 seasons, at least one skier had represented the Crimson at the national tournament...
After vacationing for years in other parts of Colorado, Carolyn and Warren Phillips came to Montrose four years ago from Lansing, Mich. "It's a great life if you like the outdoors," says Carolyn, an avid skier. "You can play all year round here...