Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while he was washing his face, that Longet killed him on March...
...immunize us against the peculiar chances, perils and opportunities of our natural climate, our raw landscape. The snowmobile makes a steep mountain slope or the tongue of a glacier just another highway. Our America has been blessed by a myriad variety of landscapes. But whether we are on the mountaintop, in the desert, on shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand, the snow, the water. Our roots, such as they are, grow in an antiseptic hydroponic solution. Instead of enjoying the weather given us "by Nature and by Nature...
...those who want their own secluded beaches badly enough, Rare Earth offers 2,700 acres of Caribbean frontage in Colombia (asking price: $1,700,000), 454 acres on a Fiji island ($1 million) or 30 acres in Tahiti ($150,000). Mountaintop retreats? Van Haefton has 20 of them. Also an Indian burial ground in California, a 1,400-acre canyon in Mexico, an obsolete ICBM base in New York State. As for whole islands, Rare Earth lists 400 for sale, including, Van Haefton says, "one in Nova Scotia for $16,000 and another in the British Virgins for $8 million...
...tide of revolution in China, I am emphatically not speaking of something illusory, unattainable . . . It is like a ship far out at sea whose masthead can already be seen from the shore; it is like the morning sun in the east whose shimmering rays are visible from a high mountaintop; it is like a child about to be born moving restlessly in its mother's womb...
...after the last event on July 5 that he did not want to give up and go back to the White House. Leaving.Monticello where he had spoken at a naturalization rite for 106 new citizens, the President ordered his helicopter pilot to circle back over Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home. He wanted to look longer...