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...saber competition is modeled on the notion that the duelers are on horseback. Only the top half of the body may be attacked but points can be scored with both the tip and side of the blade, which, fortunately, is blunt...
...snow and on ice the world over, the artists and athletes of blade and board and bobsled have been pushing themselves to the limit, staying longer on the training course, sharpening edges, testing waxes, perfecting performances and steeling nerves. Now the preparing is at an end, and what for many is the focus of a lifetime of single-minded dedication begins: the test of the best in the quadrennial Winter Olympic Games...
...loop, for instance. The maneuver begins with the competitor pushing off, moving backward on the outside edge of the right skate. In that position, moving slowly, the skater traces half a circle leading into a loop, gliding out to complete a full circle. He then changes to the inside blade edge and carves a second circle and loop...
Listeners often squirm at Smith's more explicit songs. In the title track of her Horses album, which is an incantation of violence and brutal sexuality, she sings of "white, shining silver studs with their noses in flames" and of a suicidal lover who "picked up a blade, and pressed it against his smooth throat." Redondo Beach, set against a catchy reggae beat, tells of lesbian love. Other Smith songs like the hard rocker Free Money are easier to take. In surrealistic blues like Birdland, her mordant fragments of verse can be evocative...
...Crimson swordsmen took in a slice of the Big Apple this weekend, and returned from their two-bout affair tasting both victory and defeat. Edo Marion's traveling band of blade brandishers slashed their way to a convincing 18-9 win over CCNY Friday night, but the Crimson fell to the steel of perennial powerhouse NYU in a hard fought 15-12 bout on Saturday...