Word: switchback
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...editors do not, however, plan to switchback to the old scale, David said. "The morechanges you make, the more confusing it is," shesaid...
...larger part of his output in the '80s, are an altogether different matter. The bright city on its blue bay has always been a happy hunting ground for purveyors of seagull-and-cable-car kitsch. But Thiebaud's paintings give it a weird, flattened intensity, as though its switchback hills and plunging spaces had been crushed flat against the canvas, in a parody of cubism with overtones of Canaletto...
...completely at home. "This is where I restore myself," he tells the few friends he invites here. The ranch is accessible only by climbing seven miles on a switchback road, through gullies and blind turns that drop off sharply toward the water, a drive that still makes Nancy Reagan nervous. Strong winds and fog often roll in suddenly from the sea; at other times the air on the mountaintop is crystal clear and dead quiet, so still that a voice can be heard at great distances...
...that any one of four or five men could have taken. The time to beat was the 1:47.13 set by Italy's Herbert Plank. With four fast jolts of his ski poles, Stock propelled himself out of the starting gate and launched into the knifing and chittering switchback turns at the course's top. He shot through them with a wildly debonair angling, self-assured, and then, as the course got straighter and rougher, he bounced several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect...
...tall ships that were to impose Western so-called civilization on Hawaii; the ship's English captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel Hana-Maui, an island landmark...