Word: steamboating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similar plans are working at Steamboat in Colorado and at Vermont's Woodstock Inn and Resort...
...nabob, George Plimpton, 55, already familiar to many a younger viewer not as a writer (Paper Lion) but as the Intellivision pitchman. Beginning next month, Plimpton will settle into a comfy padded chair to lecture his preliterate charges on the finer points of animation in such Disney classics as Steamboat Willie and Goofy's How to Play Baseball...
...steamboat got caught in Ohio River ice. The 26-year-old passenger from Paris, Alexis de Tocqueville, dispassionately wrote in his notebook, "Just now the vessel is cracking from poop to prow." There was nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way except by walking to reach Louisville, 25 miles away over a snow-covered trail. But Tocqueville had limitless energy and curiosity. As Political Columnist Richard Reeves observes in this book retracing the French aristocrat's nine-month journey through the U.S., even after the freezing forced march Tocqueville was still restlessly observing and asking...
Gather round, Mouska-dults. Who's making a comeback to cartooning's silver screen? Why, M-I-C-K-E-Y . . . MOUSE, 54, erstwhile star of Steamboat Willie and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Yup, Mickey's back in his first major role since 1952, this time playing Bob Cratchit in Mickey's Christmas Carol, a Disneyed version of the Charles Dickens tale. Due out at year's end, the fully animated, 24-min. featurette reunites Mickey with some old friends, including Minnie Mouse as his wife, Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, Goofy as Marley...
...summer, the Home Ranch, north of Steamboat Springs, Colo., is a modestly successful dude ranch, luring urban cowboys and cowgirls with live horseflesh and barbecued beef. When the snows come, the ranch, like scores of summer inns and resorts from the California Sierra to Massachusetts, becomes a cross-country skiing resort. The demand for cross-country accommodations-and the carefully prepared trails through snowy woods, mountains and meadows they offer-has risen dramatically...