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Treat the menu as glorified pub grub and you’re golden, at least for the time being while the restaurant works out its kinks in the way of service. Just order another bottle of the crispy and affordable Acrobat Pinot Gris from Oregon for the table and little else matters...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eat Out: Russell House Tavern | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...scene between Axler, Pegeen and a woman the couple picks up takes on the metaphorical power of Greek drama or Freudian apocrypha; “There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though… Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were wearing a mask on her genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not supposed...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roth’s ‘Humbling’ Is Erudite, If Apathetic | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...more stressed-out young professionals flood the yoga studios and see other people with comfy Manduka mats supporting their glutes, they're bound to buy the pricey products too. Look at me: I've got a Manduka; I'm totally into yoga. (Watch TIME's video "Joel Stein: Acrobat Yogi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Stress: Pricey Yoga Mats Sell Briskly in Recession | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...Manny to know that Agee, however lauded in his time (he died at 51 in 1955), would in the long run be the white elephant to Manny's termite? No, let's be fairer: Charlie Chaplin, equal parts genius and sentiment, to Manny's Buster Keaton, the deadpan acrobat and scene constructor, who had to wait ages for his star to eclipse Chaplin's in critics' eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...even counting the ones who hurt themselves either before or just after the Olympic trials in July and lost their chance to become a part of this squad at all. Making the team is more a matter of playing last-gymnast-standing than being the most talented acrobat around. "That was our fear when we originally saw it," says Bart Conner, an Olympic gold medalist from the 1984 Los Angeles Games, on the new code of points, "that it was going to lead to a lot of injuries." Chinese men's coach Huang Yubin lamented after Tuesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Gymnasts Pushed Too Far? | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

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