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...that it might be the best choice for me right now (I personally have quit many times, and its short-term benefits are quiet compelling). There is the small problem of sneaking past the course officials without being seen, of plowing two or three miles through deep snow and trackless wilderness to avoid the grandstand, the starting gate, the shooting range and all the other skiers. That'd be tricky, but it's doable. Then just throw my skis and rifle and all my other junk in the rental car and drive like hell back to Jackson Hole, change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...have come in handy at the Battle of the Bulge. On the road its driver faces no obstacle more menacing than a pothole, but he knows that if he wants, he can swing off the highway and climb a sand dune, ford a raging river, grind deep into a trackless wilderness. Of course, he never does. He has to drive the kids to soccer practice. But the unused capacity hums beneath the pedals at his feet and feeds the fantasy. Watch him roar past you on the road, and see the set of his jaw and the squint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Road Rage | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...After wandering for a quarter of a century in the trackless desert of academic administration, I had resolved to spend my remaining active years doing what I first came to Harvard to do--reading, thinking, and writing about problems of abiding interest," Bok writes in his preface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Assesses 'State of Nation' | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

...begins another day at Wolakota Yukini Wicoti, a spiritual boot camp on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, where the borderline between this world and the past can sometimes be lost on the vast and trackless prairie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIAN SUMMER | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

Superlatives are a little ridiculous applied to any art form, let alone one that boasts Sherwood Schwartz, the brain behind both Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, as an auteur. But here goes anyway. The Larry Sanders Show, with its laugh-trackless verisimilitude, is the best comedy on TV, probably the closest a sitcom will ever come to perfect pitch (yes, it's on HBO--so much for ground rules). The best drama: Party of Five, a thirtysomething for teenagers and young adults--with all the pluses (honest, abnormally well-crafted writing) and minuses (too much acoustic guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE REAL GOLDEN AGE IS NOW | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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