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...industry that has seen the tennis boom bottom out, the ski trend sag and the jogging craze slow down, blading is the bright new hope for future growth in sporting-goods sales. Industry experts believe that blades will rival the $350 million alpine-ski-boot market in the next decade. Says Thomas Doyle, research director for the National Sporting Goods Association: "It's a natural fitness activity, and the price is right." The cost ranges from $100 for basic in-line skates to $330 for pumped-up Racerblades, which have five wheels instead of the usual four...
...forget everything outside after a time. You are utterly alone. There are two of them, and they play good guy and bad guy, the bad guy slapping you and spitting on you. You wonder, 'Where does he get so much spit from?' They dig at your genitals with a boot or a stick. Sometimes they tie you to a pipe so that you cannot stand or sit or kneel and leave you that way for days...
...that you cannot begin to follow the answer to the question you've pronounced so beautifully -- and, worse still, your auditor now assumes you're fluent in Swahili. Yet sticking to English, it's easy to feel that you've never left home at all (and are guilty, to boot, of a Waugh-like linguistic imperialism...
...Henry Hwang, David Mamet and August Wilson had far more impact in London than Britons did on the Main Stem. And Broadway's musical hits were homegrown, while most London musicals of consequence featured American creators, recycled American songs, American topics, or all three, and were generally mediocre to boot. Fortunately, three British stalwarts -- a writer, a director and an actor -- have mounted superb tragicomedies that give the season's tag end a renewed hope for dispirited audiences and a belated enticement to American tourists...
Those who pass their interview with The Club's admissions committee receive their own "permanent slice of Cambridge": banquet rooms, masseur, squash courts, valet, ticket office, boot black, cigar stand and barber. Not to mention the games of bridge and backgammon, evenings of brandy and wine, entertainment by a capella and a play-wright's dialogue, a cozy library and the opportunity to tap into a "valuable resource for business or personal...