Word: tobogganing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judiciary Committee on Sept. 15, hundreds of liberal and conservative groups will have spent more than $20 million to promote their sharply different pictures of Bork. Since the President announced Bork's nomination six weeks ago, the pro- and anti-Bork juggernauts have accelerated. "It's like a toboggan going downhill," says Consumer Advocate and Bork Opponent Ralph Nader. "It's shaping up as the biggest battle in a long time." For liberals, the stakes were emphasized by the medical problems of three of the four Justices who usually support their views. Thurgood Marshall, 79, was hospitalized last week...
...Giroux; $12.95), the daughter of a fevered dressmaker attempts to deliver a ball gown to a faraway duchess. Young Irene is faced with cold, snowdrifts and night. Lesser individuals might need rescuers, but this child has ingenuity to go with her spunk. She turns the dress box into a toboggan and slides her way to the ball. Young ladies have come a long way since Hans Christian Andersen's little match girl froze her toes in the snow...
Leonard's wife Sheila, 34, a cook of high local renown, prepares all the trekkers' food in Stanley, then has it delivered to the huts by toboggan. Their partners are David Ayer, 37, a financial planner from Massachusetts, and his wife Lexa, 36, who split their time between Boston and Stanley. Ayer proposed to Lexa outside one of the Sawtooth yurts four years ago, after the third day of a five-day tour. It was -48 degrees F, and he wanted to see whether she had the right attitude toward touring...
Each arm and leg is a continuous piece of birch, slender treads bent into a pair of supple, bulging rectangles-no angular severity for Aalto. The continuous seat and back, like a toboggan doing gymnastics, is a sheet of birch plywood bent 110° in the middle and rolled at each end. It is a perfect conceit of a chair, at once lean and voluptuous. It is also reasonably accommodating to human beings: the scrolls are functional flourishes, each a great wooden spring. In this, more than in any other piece, Aalto's devotion to wood is its saving...
...teen sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy Quan) before the end of reel one. A hairbreadth escape through the bustling back streets of Shanghai! A scarifying ride in a pilotless plane! A midair bailout in a raft that bounces them onto a steep mountain slope for a wild toboggan ride off a cliff and into a raging river whose rapids carry them to ... But you get the idea. An army of professionals-439 listed in the credits-has set the narrative motor purring in high gear...