Word: backpacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first EVAS (for extravehicular activity) by American astronauts since Skylab crew members exited into space in 1973 to make external repairs on their orbital laboratory. Mission controllers called off the latest walks after a vital oxygen-and-coolant circulating fan in Astronaut Joe Allen's backpack wheezed and sputtered, and the pressure in Astronaut Bill Lenoir's suit failed to reach acceptable levels...
Everyone laughs at how odd that is and then the stories begin to fly: Jim Sheppe imitating some obscure bird in the small courtyard. Jim Sheppe wearing a huge leather backpack, tromping into the archway to the tune of an old German march which he is simultaneously singing and conducting in the air. Jim Sheppe convincing an audience of credulous Lowell House diners that he had once accidentally partaken of the flesh of two murdered Italian tourists in Africa. "But you know," one person concludes for the whole table. "I really like him. He's a very nice guy, very...
Last April, when she abruptly canceled all her operatic engagements (with the exception of La Boheme) and set out for India, she carried only a single change of clothing in her backpack. Traveling from Calcutta to Nepal and Kashmir, she lived in cheap hotels and sometimes washed her clothes on the rocks beside rivers. In the depths of Calcutta's desperate poverty, she was ushered into Mother Teresa's presence and found herself awestruck: "That face is so gorgeous, with its millions of lines. She held my hands and looked at me with those eyes of strength, calm...
...certain to draw more psychosexual analysis. The crossfire is not likely to affect Sendak's life or style. After 35 years of remarkable work he is more preoccupied with the inside than the outside over there. Recently he watched a father carrying his young son in a backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined...
McGinnis is not the writer McPhee is. Going to Extremes is little more than hastily scrawled notes on paper wrinkled from being stashed in the author's backpack during a year's travel. It's all grubby and tough, rambling along with McGinnis as he trudges and airlifts back and forth across Alaska. The style is rough, unfluent, and unpolished, with sentence fragments and single words often strung together or chopped up in an outdoorsy gruffness that is quite suitable for the ramshackle and breathtaking world McGinnis explores, though too often it sounds like plain old bad writing. But throughout...