Word: buttons
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...acrobatic than pairs skating, ice dancing, which bears more than a passing resemblance to ballroom dancing, works its wonders within a smaller compass. It allows no high lifts, for example, and spins are limited to 1 1/2 turns. "The difference is like that between poetry and prose," says Dick Button, the American skating impresario and Olympic figure-skating star. "They are two different disciplines. Both can be beautiful...
...argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed, left-right stride of a man who's fallen off too many broncos. He is wearing a goose-down vest, a snap-button shirt, jeans and pointy-toed cowboy boots, all of which look out of place in this working man's, New England bar. One of the men at the bar glances over his shoulder. He elbows another. Then another. Soon all the men at the bar are glancing over their shoulders. They...
Each set of six bookshelves has one "floating" aisle, which is opened automatically by pressing a button. Because the stacks can be squeezed into half the space of normal shelving, the anthropology library has been able to store about 24,000 volumes in an area that previously held...
Wylie is not the first skater to both compete regularly and attend classes at Harvard. While living along the river, Dick T. Button '52, somewhat of a legend in men's figure skating, held five major figure skating titles in 1949 simultaneously--including medals at the Olympics, World, National, North American and European competitions. Radcliffe captured its own share of skating glory when Tenley Albright '57 captured her fifth consecutive National Ladies' Title and second Olympic Gold Medal in 1956. Both of these Olympians naturally spent much of their time shuttling between the Yard and the historic Boston Skating Club...
...Dick Button was way ahead of his time," Wylie, his modern successor, says. "He was doing triple axels before people were doing all of the double [axels]. (A triple axel, by the way, is an ice skating maneuver in which the skater jumps off a single blade and completes two and one-half revolutions in midair before landing backwards on a single blade...