Word: skying
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...Ski biz sets out to get the whole family back on the slopes...
...Sugarbush, in Warren, Vt., is now $25 (slightly less in Western areas). Take your wife and two teen-agers along and that's $100, Daddy, not counting lunch. An overnight, with dinner and breakfast, costs an extra $200. Figure $500 or more for each adult-size person for skis, poles, boots and bindings, and an additional $300 to $500 for bib pants, ski jacket, long Johns, socks and gloves...
Prudent parents, even if they were dedicated ski bums during their own college years, may decide that the cold, crisp joy of schussing to bankruptcy is best left to singles with incomes at or above the orthodontist level. Not at all, say the business-oriented swifties who are taking over the management of big ski resorts from the old 10th Mountain Division veterans who founded them. The ski biz needs families to fill all the lifts and hotels it built during the past two decades and to pay the notes on the expensive snowmaking equipment it continues to install...
...scheduled into the routines of the world. They have become a way we punctuate our time. History unfolds as a sequence of detonations, a portion of the nightly news given over to psychosis. The scenes define a distinct style of politics in the world today, politics in a ski mask, violence dramatizing an unappeasable rage. Faceless, and morally depthless, the zealots crash truck bombs into their targets in Beirut or Tyre, go night riding with the Salvadoran death squads, or set the timers for the I.R.A. One sees their work-the almost daily deposits of bodies in the roads...
...down on straw place mats. The dining table, preferably butcher block, glass or marble, must never match the dining chairs. Yuppies angle for Queen Anne service as a wedding gift, then use their half of the service for everyday flatware after the divorce. As wedding presents, Yuppies give ski wax, an ounce of saffron or a specially written home-computer program, the Yuppie equivalent of a handmade quilt...