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Franconia, Cannon Mt.--5 to 19, 4 powder, good upper and lower...
North Conway, Cranmore--6 to 16, 1 windblown powder surface...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...
...saintly Moon Lady, separated from her pious young son by invading Tartars, is hustled offstage before she can become tiresome. Her place is taken by a crew of thieves, usurers, pimps and powder faces (prostitutes) who add up to a kind of road-company Decameron. The fat lecher Pi, for instance, lusts after the beautiful Silver Vase, a pubescent virgin being carefully tended by Lady Li, a flower-garden proprietor (brothelkeeper). Cash-and-Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving...
Conditions reported elsewhere are Waitsfield, Mad River Glen, 5 to 15, one new powder, fair to good lower; Warren, Sugarbush Valley, 7 to 20, 3 powder, fair to good. Lifts start daily operation Saturday...