Word: terrains
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...danger. None of us were told not to play by any official of the Aspen Skiing Co. Ski-patrol members invariably skied behind us to complete their afternoon sweep, and ski-lift personnel routinely ferried our ski poles to the bottom of the mountain. Michael was the best all-terrain skier I have ever seen. He was skiing at a moderate speed on a well-lit and well-groomed intermediate slope, playing a game with his children, something many of us have done without incident for nearly 20 years. Like all sports, including ski racing and ski jumping, ski football...
Snowboard makers have been busy too, developing boards for the growing number of children and adults joining the teenage boys who once dominated the sport. This year's trends include a longer board with deep side cuts that allow snowboarders to descend all kinds of terrain with greater control. Among the hot models: the Search by Sims ($365), Salomon's Directional 163 ST ($420), the Custom by Burton ($430) and Avalanche's Sanders148 for women...
...starters finished. The period from June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945, is saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor, is to stay off the street). "I feel very close to these guys," says Ambrose, who looks and sounds like a hardened field commander yet admits he sometimes cries at the computer...
...sipped tea/Politely musing on possible reasons for the success of my books in your country/ Slipping into talk about pain and humiliation you find occurring, and reoccurring in my stories/ And that element of sheer chance." Carver's verse easily applies to Murakami. Although Murakami deals with a larger terrain, he illuminates both man's condition and an entire nation's with unforgettable style...
Walker has written that the play "explores the terrain of the ineffable." The god whose cult it concerns is beyond mortal understanding: Dionysos is automorphic, xenophoric, acrobatic, dark, sexual and fierce all at once--a gleeful irreverent demanding reverence. So Euripides focuses on our experience instead: the human response to divinity...