My friends who ski exclusively in the Western mountains of North America like to regale me with stories of off-piste backcountry experiences during which they lose track of time and place.
Fairbanks's tenure at Colorado was calamitous: in three seasons, the team went 7-26, including a humiliating 82-42 loss in 1980 — to Oklahoma — and was tainted by stories of off-the-field misdeeds by players, including two who were expelled for selling copies of an exam to an undercover police officer.
Telling the story of Off Off Broadway's creation, Strausbaugh mentions work like "Awful People Are Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending to Be Hard at Work and Hope They Will Go Away".
Gene S. Minkow, managing director of Fleetwood, described the play as a comedy of sorts, based on both Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" and Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" as "a heartfelt story of off-putting characters and evil-doing".
He wore his wetsuit to meals and told stories of fishing off the nose of his board.
The documentary proved an opportunity for Payne to "go down memory lane," Pond said, recalling her stories of jumping off trains in Europe and smuggling diamonds out of Monaco.
But stories of laid-off workers, unpaid salaries and involuntary holidays are having more impact.
Horror stories of ripped-off, stranded or duped pilgrims persist, in spite of campaigns from the British government and pilgrim-interest groups, such as non-existent hotels, or sub-standard and overcrowded accommodation.
If Munson's story is one that inspires engineers to look for entrepreneurial opportunities within their own profession, I also encountered some charming stories of laid-off techies who pursued other interests.
Hayes' story of starting off as a single, teenage mother, before going on to have a successful career in education, had always resonated with DiGiovancarlo.
Of all the residents I speak to, Jean is the only one to bring up the sad story of Joyce Vincent off her own back.
