Word: tyroleans
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...tall -- which was short even in his day -- and weighed around 50 kg (110 lbs.). Though his nose had been crushed and his upper lip folded by the weight of ice, it is clear that he had well-formed facial features that would not draw stares from contemporary Tyroleans. Says South Tyrolean archaeologist Hans Notdurfter: "He looks like one of our well-tanned ancestors...
...long time ago, a young man bundled himself up in a weatherproof leather coat, shouldered a crude wooden backpack, grabbed a knife, a bow and an ax, and headed into the Tyrolean Alps, which run between Austria and Italy. Up high in the mountains, at about 3,200 m (10,500 ft.), something happened -- an accident, a violent blow -- that took his life and left him to be swallowed by the Similaun Glacier. There he lay, locked in a crevasse, buried, frozen, forgotten...
...Broadway version of Chess is daringly different from London's gaudy expressionistic phantasm. That show's chess matches are displayed on 128 video screens and refereed by a surreal punk; the production hopscotches from a Tyrolean resort to British boardrooms to Bangkok's red-light district, each cartoonishly evoked. Nunn took over in London, two weeks before rehearsals started, when the late Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls) was stricken with AIDS. Says Nunn: "By the time I came into the project, it was designed and cast, and the basic narrative decisions had been taken...
Normally, at least in the mind's eye, these pneumonia festivals are staged in intimate Tyrolean villages built on the order of cuckoo clocks and peopled largely by Peter Sellers. But this year's host, for 16 days starting Saturday, is Calgary, Canada, a prairie town muscled into an oil capital, a sprawling city in every sense. Venues may seem a bit more scattered than usual, but this is where Canadian ingenuity comes in. The writer Pierre Berton offers a definition: "A Canadian is someone who could make love in a canoe." After all, isn't intimacy part balance...
...festival included 60 stands extending from the corner of John F. Kennedy and Brattle Streets and featured yodelers, Tyrolean singers and vendors of bratwurst, sauerkraut and beer...