Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOY/THE SNOW BALL (off-Broadway/Huntington Theater, Boston...
...Gurney has moved from lacerating the Wasp world he came from (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) to exploring his own guilts in this pair of pieces about the disquiets and discontents of his generation. The Old Boy laments unthinking bigotry toward homosexuals. The Snow Ball yearns for bygone male authority and apparent female contentment with...
...BOY/THE SNOW BALL (off-Broadway/Huntington Theater, Boston...
...cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road to Damascus. Those last hours passed with infernal slowness; his captors continued to argue over whether to let him go at all. But when at last the path to freedom cleared, he appeared to a world captured in a camera lens, and all was finally well...
However, if you are claustrophobic and abhor being pressed together like sardines, three seat chair-lifts leave from every gondola station. In the last years however, despite being 1850 meters high in altitude, snow has been sparse at Christmas time, and the normally highly enjoyable "off-piste" skiing was disappointing. The best time to go is in February and March when snow is abundant. "Apres-ski" life ranges from English pubs to French nightclubs. Val d'Isere attracts mostly British and French skiers. If you like to ski, and want to find out how good you really...