Word: frigidities
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There has been a bright side to this cold spring weather for the women's tennis team. The frigid temperatures pushed Harvard's weekend matches into the Beren Tennis Center...
...brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
...incarnation as a drifter, Kreimer became something of a local fixture. High school friends would invite him into their homes for a shower and shave. When it was too frigid to spend the night in the fields near a new condominium development, he would take the train to Manhattan and ride the cold out on the subway...
...others to suffer the downside of his success. At the public library on a frigid winter day, another street person huddles in the foyer, leaning against a heater. Face to the wall, he mutters to himself as his stench fills the air. The librarians and patrons pass by on their way into the building -- there could be legal consequences to disturbing...
Hearty, vigorous, genial and suitably spandexed these activities all are. But are they really sports worthy of the Winter Olympics? Do ski ballet and aerials and moguls, short-track skating, curling and speed skiing display the requisite patina of frostbitten history and frigid heritage? Do they evoke the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that is Nome...