Word: sledded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North American Championship Sled Dog Race. For all you curiosity seekers, Fairbanks, Alaska, is the place to be this weekend for the 38th running of this prestigious event. The sledding takes off today, with 19 mushers vying for a total of $14,000 in prize money. The race culminates in Sunday's finale, a finishing heat of 30 miles. Early indications point to the North Pole's Marvin Kokrine as the favorite, but you never can tell which way the snow will blow...
...Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs, and small hands and feet that conserved heat stoked in barrel-like torsos. They ate seal meat and blubber, wiped the grease from their lips with partridge wings and talked mostly of hunting and sled dogs...
Except for his proud Gallic nose, the author blends in. He dresses in native furs, cracks the whip expertly over his sled team, and gnaws blubbery popsicles in the glow of an igloo oil lamp. He falls into the rhythms of polar life and begins to view this white-on-white world through the eyes of an Inuit...
...Spielberg, 34, he too was dealing with-and for-legends last week. Making a long-distance telephone bid of $60,500 to an auction at Sotheby's in New York City, Spielberg acquired that most famous of cinematic props, the symbolic sled Rosebud from Orson Welles' masterpiece, Citizen Kane. It was the highest amount of money ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia, but Spielberg was unfazed. "It would have been an insult," he said, "if it had gone for only $20,000"-the expected price tag. "Rosebud," promises the hot hit-making director, "will go over...
Their package tour had popped in upon a waste of once mystical inaccessibility, the place that Peary's dog sled struggled to in 1909. The tourists landed on an abstraction and almost fell through the top of the world. They sat for a few hours like a family stuck on a freeway with engine trouble, and then another plane came and drove them back...