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...strength, and mesh reinforcement for optimal flexibility (too much and you lose projection; too little and the board snaps back in heavy surf). Designed with intermediate and advanced bodyboarders in mind, the Taloa sports a retro shape that's appropriate no matter how you ride - prone, drop-knee or stand-up like the pros. Next Product: Focus Points...
...five seconds left, I want to be taking that draw.” On a team that lost five seniors to graduation and three standouts to national teams and replaced the departures with eight freshmen, there is some doubt as to who will fill the leadership void. With stand-up plays like the late face-off, Raimondi is helping to quell those doubts. “She’s a tremendous leader in this program,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “She’ll do anything she can, go anywhere she can. Huge...
Rothman may be offbeat in his choice of avocation, but he is not alone. A growing number of seniors across the nation are taking the plunge into stand-up comedy. They are attending comedy workshops, performing in the open-mike circuits in their regions and even getting paying gigs at clubs, conventions and nonprofit organizations. Managers, club owners and comedy instructors estimate that the phenomenon has grown 25% to 50% in the past five years...
...Comedy is tragedy plus time. These funny people have a lifetime of things to say and are enough distance away from any pain to talk about it," says Judy Carter, a Los Angeles comic, comedy teacher and author of Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide...
...then there are those who get into performing without really intending to. Tom Richards, 67, is a retired newspaper reporter and columnist in Appleton, Wis. Five years ago, he was writing an article on what it's like to be a stand-up comedian, and the local Skyline Comedy Caf allowed him a few minutes of stage time. "I got some laughs, to my amazement, despite my nerves," Richards says. "I became addicted." Sample gag: "I told my wife that I wanted to let my hair grow into a ponytail. She said, 'If you do that, I'll divorce...