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Much of Dangerous Liaisons 1960 takes place at a beautiful ski resort where the characters smoothly glide about, manipulating each other in a highly artful fashion. Valmont manages to slyly keep Marianne's glass full of wine at a New Year's Eve party and then uses the excuse of midnight to steal a none-too-chaste kiss. The film makes ample use of symbols in its framing of the shots, particularly those of the food. The characters also find themselves mirrored and foreshadowed by a series of very suggestive paintings...
...there such a lull in boats going by?" puzzled one tourist in a bright red ski jacket aloud to his companion, munching on a hunk of Italian sausage. Indeed, very few observers care about who wins or who loses. Very few seem to know that the regatta is a series of races. Some know even less. A woman wearing a Lesley College sweatshirt and sunglasses spoke distractedly, pointing first downstream, then upstream, then across the river, "So what's the deal? The races are going this way?" And others still less--"Are we near Harvard Square...
What the sport needed, Braden decided, was some good research. With sponsorship from the Aspen Skiing Corp., he began interviewing skiers and instructors. "I started hearing some horror stories," he recalls. "Arrogant ; ski instructors got inexperienced people to the top of the mountain and said, 'If you want to have lunch with us, ski down.' " Braden was aghast. Even with good instructors, he says, "skiing is the most intimidating sport. It surfaces childhood fears faster than anything: fear of abandonment, fear of falling. People haven't fallen for 30 or 40 years, and now they're down in the snow...
These problems were limiting the appeal of skiing, he told the Aspen Skiing executives, but could be dealt with in a school "where people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...
Using humor, psychology and physics, the author and coach extraordinaire shows nonstars easy ways to improve their performance on tennis courts and ski slopes...