Word: squaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That spine tingler of a script is, with a certain amount of cinematic license, akin to sweet reality at the 55-acre Hollywood studios of venerable Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western. A year ago, the company that distributed one of the first Hollywood feature-length movies (The Squaw Man, 1914) was close to the ropes, its revenues sagging and its film larder practically bare. Today, in the words of Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Guardian Research, a Los Angeles investment-management firm, "they're having the greatest year of any company in the recent history...
...Overflow, Helga is a thin, pretty, sleeping girl; the suggestive lines idealize her. And yet she breathes with youth and possibility. When the series is fleshed out, weight and age attach themselves to her, and by the time Wyeth commits the image to paint she looks calcified, statuesque, a squaw totem placed on its side. But no: there is a hint of life and movement. Helga's hip has curled out of its confining sheet, perhaps in response to the sound of the cascade outside her window that gives the work its title. Following the gestation from sketch to drybrush...
Sired by a Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey, McKinney was raised on a horse farm but bred to be a ski racer by her stage mother Frances, who rented a winter house near Squaw Valley, Calif. "I remember wearing baby skis," says Tamara, the youngest and the second most promising of Frances McKinney's seven children, five of whom reached the U.S. ski team. Sheila, 25, the family's particular star, made the team at the unlikely age of twelve. But in 1977 she fell in a downhill run and was unconscious for a month. After relearning...
...touch football, skating and waterskiing. And last week, at Mount Sunapee, N.H., he took a first place in the New England Regional Handicapped Ski Championship. With his proud father looking on, Kennedy beat a field of 25 men, thereby earning a spot at the National Championships this month in Squaw Valley, Calif...
...Squaw Valley, seven miles west of Lake Tahoe, an avalanche crew was trying last Wednesday to dislodge a huge overhang of snow on a ridge overlooking the Alpine Meadows ski resort. The resort, like many others in the Sierras, was officially closed; only about a dozen of its 250 employees were on hand, along with a few valley residents purchasing emergency food supplies at the lodge. Suddenly, in midafternoon, the ridge mass gave way. Propelling 100-m.p.h. winds before it, a wall of snow half a mile wide and 20 ft. high slammed down into the valley snapping...