Word: doves
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...carrying the Olympic flag; Eva Herzigova, a Czech-born resident of Torino, starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half-shell and Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini's Nessun Dorma. A Ferrari roared on stage; speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!); and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there was a poetry-spouting Yoko Ono (who knew she was Italian?). The only thing missing was Torino's famous shroud, said to have covered Jesus. The Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly anxieties...
...flag; Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini's Nessun Dorma (Nobody Sleeps) from Turandot; Eva Herzigova (a Czech-born resident of Torino) starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half shell. A Ferrari roared onstage, the speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!), and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there was a poetry-spouting Yoko Ono. (Who knew she was Italian?) The only thing missing was the famous shroud...
...Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, who objected to having news photographers take her picture. ?Yoko Ono and Peter Gabriel also appeared, and paid tribute to her husband John Lennon?s "Imagine." Twenty-eight white-clothed acrobats climbed polls on a massive structure and briefly formed an astonishing dove of peace. The crowd joined reticently and sporadically into "YMCA," but perked up to "Jump" and "I Feel Good...
...Crimson stayed out of the penalty box, while Yale’s pressure became fiercer. The Bulldogs outshot Harvard in the third period and overtime, but Martin’s goaltending and the Crimson defense preserved the tie. On a key chance for Yale in the extra period, Martin dove across the front of the goal to pounce on a loose puck on the other side of the net. Another near-goal was taken away by head referee Derek Zuckerman because the play had been whistled dead despite the puck still being loose. “A disallowed goal...
...kill team, very speedy.”Harvard, however, was fortified by a more comfortable and cohesive back line and some truly heady play in net by Martin. The youngster, who learned she would get her third collegiate start on Wednesday, was nimble with the glove, corralled rebounds, and dove fearlessly to knock away loose pucks despite being the only goalie listed on the game-time roster. Martin “gave us everything,” Stone said. “She was dead-on on all the pucks. She controlled her rebounds, she was aggressive when she needed...