Word: cordingly
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...What's New? Makers like Salomon and K2 are out with bigger, faster wheels and interchangeable parts to customize the look and feel of your skates, while Rollerblade is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a streamlined new model featuring a single cord that pulls tight without the need for lacing (see inset). Aero 90s ($289) also have more shock-absorbent soles, an antibacterial foot bed and a formfitting lining so your feet don't sweat so much. Tip: If you're a beginner, stick to smaller wheels for safer skating...
...cased like a land crab in the formal armor that was designed to protect him against sword cuts and even the slow-flying lead balls of a matchlock, he was a sight: the armor consisted of hundreds of lacquered leather platelets, like fish scales, bound together with silk cord. But his mask, finial, badge and troops' standard, all in one, was the helmet, on whose design much fantasy and theatrical cunning were expended. Because they were an inviting target for the other side, not many helmets survive. The best that do, considered as sculpture, are unique in their formal beauty...
DIED. Pelle Lindbergh, 26, last season's top goaltender in the National Hockey League, most valuable player for the Philadelphia Flyers and member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic hockey team; from severe brain and spinal-cord injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
There he was, a miniature ball of blue fluff in yellow overalls, my very own Cookie Monster stuffed animal. As I sat mesmerized and pulled the cord to hear his voice, Cookie taught me many things. Of course, there was the traditional, “C is for Cookie,” and the more delightful moan of “Cooooooooookie.” But amidst all that cookie talk was another message, “Me love vegetables...
...Beverly Hills p.r. firm, is one of the growing number of women in the predominantly male sport. Celebrities, including Bo Derek, Stefanie Powers and Sam Shepard, are mounting up as well. Danger is little deterrent. In Hawaii a month ago, a player was killed in a mishap involving Alex Cord of TV's Airwolf, but the actor remains hooked. "Once you have the spell cast over you, you become the slave of a grand passion that lasts forever," says Cord reverently. "It encompasses different skills. You have to be able to ride like a Comanche and think like a chess...