Word: glittering
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...most beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty as performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players under the direction of Ashley A.P. Horan ’05. It is a delightful romp of song and dance, with a flamboyant (and let us not forget, glitter-chest) Pirate King who immediately calls to mind images of Captain Jack Sparrow...
...silver-gray hues of wet bark glisten. Huge flowers adorn gnarled banksia trees so old they would have been sprouting when Caley passed by. Owls call to another in the dark, and the stars, which Caley thought he was seeing when he found glow-worms in Luminous Valley, glitter fiercely. In the end, lack of food forced Caley to turn back. He'd succeeded, but his feat remains little known today, perhaps because, as his biographer Joan Webb suspects, the outspoken and independent ways of this son of an English horse-dealer didn't impress the colony's most powerful...
...brief moment, it looked as though Athens would be the resting place for numerous chunks of American pride. Venus Williams and Andy Roddick got bounced in tennis, the gymnasts weren't nearly as sparkling as the glitter in their hair, and Michael Phelps looked merely human. Before long, though, the U.S. was sitting in its customary place atop the medal standings, with golds in everything from double trap shooting to road cycling to gymnastics; the swim team alone took 28 medals. While flip turns and double Arabians are cute in a quadrennial sort of way, they do not display...
...Candrea took her advice. He bet one player that he'd tattoo his arm if she tattooed a home run. He let star pitcher Jennie Finch spray glitter in her teammates' hair. But at the end he couldn't stop the tears. Carrying big bats on their shoulders and heavy feelings in their hearts, the U.S. women's softball team pounded Australia 5-1 at the Olympic Softball Stadium on Monday, clinching its third straight gold medal...
...Vegas agrees that the casinos will eventually find a way to bring the strip clubs inside. "It's guaranteed. It's just a matter of when," says Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, 64, whose municipal duties cover just a a small part of town north of the Strip called Glitter Gulch, a technicality that does not stop him from representing everyone anywhere near Vegas. A former defense attorney for alleged mobsters, Goodman was voted in for a second term by 86% of the voters and can't believe the other 14% actually exist. In his office are a truly shocking...