Word: snowstorms
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...married for the first time at 45 and found that the institution suits him. Early in Comedian, he tries to cheer up a disheartened young stand-up by telling him his favorite show-business story. The plane carrying Glenn Miller's band is forced to land in a snowstorm. Two of the musicians are trudging through a snowy field and see a snug little cabin in front of them. They peer through the window and see a husband and wife laughing with their two apple-cheeked children in front of a roaring fireplace. One band member turns to the other...
...colleagues out of his chair. They don't realize it, of course, but it's American Airlines Flight 11 puncturing their building upstairs, across floors 94 to 98. "What the hell?" says Genelle. She's not scared yet, just curious, so she goes to the window. Seeing a snowstorm of papers in the air, she stands in awe and confusion, motionless. Now people are saying a plane has hit the building. "We have to leave," she hears someone urge...
...pair, tagged along for "camera practice." He ended up shooting inside hell, racing with the fire fighters downtown and into the lobby of the tower, as debris rained outside the broken windows, workers ran for the exits, and the south tower collapsed, turning a sunny morning into a midnight snowstorm...
...altitude, dirty food, fetid water, intestinal parasites and an utterly alien ecosystem. On Erik's team, at any given moment, half the climbers were running fevers, the others were nauseated, and they all suffered from one form or another of dysentery, an awkward ailment when there's a driving snowstorm and it's 30[degrees] below outside the tent. You relieve yourself however you can, in the vestibule of your tent or in a plastic bag. "It can be a little bit gross," says Erik. "But if you go outside and take your pants down, you'll have two inches...
...altitude, dirty food, fetid water, intestinal parasites and an utterly alien ecosystem. On Erik's team, at any given moment, half the climbers were running fevers, the others were nauseated, and they all suffered from one form or another of dysentery, an awkward ailment when there's a driving snowstorm and it's 30 below outside the tent. You relieve yourself however you can, in the vestibule of your tent or in a plastic bag. "It can be a little bit gross," says Erik. "But if you go outside and take your pants down, you'll have two inches...