Word: icing
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...tucks a flask conveniently into her clutch and steps out into the crisp night. Faithful as she is, Adelman knows as well as anyone that sometimes all the Harvard scene requires is a little assistance. When we arrive at the Bright Hockey Center, a large catwalk has replaced the ice in preparation for Eleganza, a student-run fashion show and one of Harvard’s most well-attended events of the year. Even from the bleachers, you can smell the sweat of some of Harvard’s hottest as they strut their stuff through the Bright. Adelman...
...Winehouse’s personal decay or Britney’s tiresome new pregnancy. Where’s the line, exactly, between inducing repeated voluntary abortions and mindless stunts like “magician” David Blaine’s several-day stint trapped inside a block of ice...
...which was a 16mm film about the romance between felines and humans, a kind of diary of a cat named Oliver. She is also currently working on an installation named “Marshmallowtopias,” a performance piece about sculptures that comes to life on ice skates.But art did not become a significant part of Hays’ life until about two years ago, although she had been interested in drawing before and throughout high school. She got into performance art because of its immediacy and the fact that, to Hays, it felt more intuitive...
...over two decades of war, during which tens of thousands had been killed and some two million displaced. But, retreating to a bush camp - where, thanks to a team of professional caterers airlifted in by the United Nations, we feasted on hot meals and drank South African merlot and ice cold Heineken beer - it emerged that all was not well...
Before Frick and Frack entered the English lexicon as a term for an inseparable pair of buffoons, it referred to a popular ice-skating comedy duo. Beginning in the late 1930s, Frick, Werner Groebli, and his partner, Frack, Hans Rudolph Mauch, performed some 15,000 shows incorporating a unique mixture of pantomime, physical comedy and athleticism. "People think our skating is eccentric. It's not so," Groebli told TIME during the pair's first U.S. tour, in 1939. "Any figure skater should be able to do a serious spread eagle"--in which he skates with his body bent backward nearly...