Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice does not match the face. Against the crescendos of two guitars, drums, and piano, Jobriath's voice is strong--Jagger-like in its harshness. "Wherever you are, ahoooooooooooooo." The guitarists, rocking along in giant ski-boot clogs, fill in the "yeh, yeh, yeh's." Jobriath gestures. The movements are familiar: mouth in a circle, eyes wide, the elbows cocked, the wrists limpid, the fingers splayed. The music rises in scintillating shimmers. Jobriath leaps backstage, and returns as a "Space Clown." Pink ruffled mask coyly over his eyes, pink satin G-string in place, Jobriath mimes juggling. He pirouettes gracefully...
...rhetoric and even the idea of a "third position" probably reflected Perón's strong sympathy for Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, two governments that saw themselves as a "third way" between Communism and capitalism. After experiencing Mussolini's regime in the early 1940s?he observed Italian Alpine ski troops?Peron called il Duce "the greatest man of our century." He later turned Argentina into a haven for suspected war criminals...
...They live in a handsome but inexpensive six-room, sixth-floor apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu, just a block from the Champs-Elysées, with their two small daughters. A full-time maid lives on the floor above. In winter the Raguins take a week off to ski in the French Alps; in summer they rent a modestly priced seaside villa for a month on the island of Corsica, where they sail and waterski. Occasionally during the year they take long weekend trips to London or resorts in France. Though they could probably afford it, they...
...months after her husband's death, she suggests, a wife can hardly handle the affairs of daily life, let alone the complications of sex. After numbness comes what Mrs. Caine calls "the Crazy Period." She had mad thoughts-they seemed practical at the time-of buying a ski lodge or a house in Key West. Instead, she went suburban in Hackensack, N.J.-a plan that made almost as little sense, especially because she had no car and, as it turned out, proved incapable of learning to drive...
...Lansing where Havlicek grew up. When his playing career ends, Havlicek hopes, "there may be a chance for me to do some work around Columbus as an assistant college coach, but I'll concentrate on my housewares business there. And I'm going to learn to ski." The way Havlicek is running these days, it will be some time before he tries the slopes...