Word: clambering
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Chores done, 11 of us clamber into our basket, and we lift off from the southern tip of the valley. We rise silently over one of Australia's most prosperous and lovely regions, just as the first rays of dawn begin to spread over the landscape. Then the romance starts. Viticulture in the Hunter Valley began in the early 1820s but only in the 1960s did the wine industry of the lower valley begin to flourish. By the '80s it had superseded coal mining as the centerpiece of the local economy. These days about 160 grape growers and 43 wineries...
...when Karen Mok says "So what?" she sounds to the manor born. In one marvelous moment in Young and Dangerous 3, she gets hit by a car while rollerblading down a busy street. As four hip Hong Kong lads clamber out of the car to check if she's O.K., Mok adjusts herself, stands back up on the blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street...
...freestyle interpretations of the rote game that at first glance seems more suited to copycats than creative artists. In February, Aldea was the first DDR performer around to use a cane during a routine. More than 200 people packed the neon-lit Metreon showroom to watch the bespectacled dancer clamber onto the dance platform and coolly follow the game's flashing foot-pad squares while adding a show-off flair all his own. That swaggering, 180-beat-per-minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous contests Aldea has wowed judges with trademark moves, like...
...never expected to be training for the 2000 Olympics. She left competition in 1996 and dived into normal life, studying management science at Beijing's prestigious Qinghua University. For two years, not once did she clamber onto a board. "The last thing I wanted to do was dive," she recalls. "I just wanted to be a kid without any pressures...
...refusing to sully its schedule with the likes of the hokey Survivor and the intelligence-challenged Millionaire and the relentlessly odious Big Brother. Instead, Sassa and NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier have been hearing ominous rumors that their bosses are unhappy that the entertainment division has failed to clamber aboard the careering reality express...