Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stunning archaeological find -- and the best ad yet for cryogenics. Not only did this Late Stone Age mountain climber emerge in remarkably good shape from his icy tomb in the Italian Alps, but his tools and some of his clothing were intact -- a treasure trove scientists will be mining for years...
...fixated on reuniting the best dancers among them, a onetime romantic couple who were always outsiders in this prim upper-middle-class world: a girl who was much richer than the rest and a handsome "Irishman on the make" who was much poorer, Roman Catholic, and a blunt social climber. These two roles are double-cast to make the many flashbacks more vivid and to allow for an evocative reunion number, choreographed by Graciela Daniele, in which the two elders dance simultaneously in the present, in the past and, reaching across time, with their own younger selves...
...political and family problems. A word from al-Husseini can even take the heat off Palestinians accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Admirers and foes alike find al- Husseini decent and sincere. That is little solace. Al-Husseini likens his role as go-between to that of a mountain climber: "I need to think only about not falling...
...addition to his academic work, Bill Graham, an avid mountain climber, sponsors the Harvard Mountaineering Club...
...more than 600 pages the book digs up seemingly every tawdry anecdote, unflattering recollection or catty comment ever uttered about Nancy Reagan. The former First Lady was, in Kelley's account, a cold and uncaring parent, a manipulative social climber and an acquisitive arriviste -- who was nonetheless so cheap that she would recycle old gifts and send them to friends. In her Hollywood days, the book contends, Nancy Davis got parts because she was sleeping with MGM's head of casting. In Washington she was a ruthless Marie Antoinette who was the real power behind the President. She rejected...