Word: slaloming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitive season begins in January and runs through the end of February. Except for one week allotted for exams, the Crimson will be competing in a two-day carnival each weekend during the season. Two runs of the Nordic race and downhill slalom are held on the first day of each carnival, followed by two runs of the Nordic relay and downhill giant slalom the next...
...state boating manager, David Parsons. This summer that majority is likely to be more hostile than ever. Opponents view the scooters as an intrusive and dangerous presence on waterways. They point to the gruesome accidents and deaths that have resulted from hotdogging skiers who use swimmers as a slalom course. In Hawaii a six-year-old skier collided with a woman kayaker; the woman died. In Arizona a baby girl sitting at the shoreline was washed along the rocks when a skier sent his wake crashing her way; she required 130 stitches. On Easter Sunday at Miami's Hobie...
...Hollywood standards, The Last Emperor is a supremely daring film. Instead of following the normal emotional trajectory of movie epics -- struggle, triumph, despair, reconciliation -- Bertolucci's film runs a slalom course of disillusionment. In worldly or heroic terms, Pu Yi attains nothing. He loses his power, then his title, then his freedom. Nor is Pu Yi personally attractive; he can be both toady and bully. "He's not a sympathetic character," says Screenwriter Mark Peploe, who is Bertolucci's brother-in- law. "I resisted even trying to understand him when I wrote the script." But any alert viewer can understand...
...misty moments next day it seemed that the lead of Sweden's 31- year-old Ingemar Stenmark, greatest male skier of his time, would hold up in the snow-blurred second run of the men's slalom. Then the astonishing Tomba, third after the first run, swiveled down the course to first place and his second gold, ahead of West Germany's Frank Woerndl and another elderly gent, Liechtenstein's 30-year-old Paul Frommelt. Stenmark slipped to fifth. What now for La Bomba, two Ferraris? How do you say vroom-vroom in Italian...
Alberto Tomba, 21, Italy's self-proclaimed beast and "La Bomba," buried his ski boots in what little snow remained at Nakiska on the day of the giant slalom in the second week of the great chinook. He feared they might soften halfway down the mountain under the weight of his incredible confidence. Immediately posting the best time for the first run, Tomba waited only long enough to see that Pirmin Zurbriggen was slower before telephoning home to Bologna (collect). "You have seen Tomba once," he advised his parents. "But now, for the second run, you must turn...