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...grasps the shape and form of her figures and the materials are manifest throughout. No attempt is made to disguise any part of the work; all is open for view. In one instance a staircase was even appended to a work so that viewers could peek down into its hollow center...
...course, village life means accommodating bad neighbors along with the good. When Ruttledge and Kate are called upon by John Quinn, the local womanizer always looking for chances to “get into the boggy hollow,” they are obliged to welcome him just as they would their best friends. The villagers’wry, patient sense of humor makes such a mix of people endurable; gossip makes them interesting. Jamesie is guilessly fascinated by the details of other people’s lives. But his wife recognizes that the importance of knowing other people runs...
...started with surrogate skis called Crosskates. Unlike inline skates, which are mounted directly above four hard, rubbery wheels, each Crosskate ($700 a pair) is attached to a hollow, 2-ft.-long aluminum bar, with a rugged, air-filled tire on each end. The metal frame gives the skates extra stability, and the front wheels pivot to the side to make turning easier. You use ski poles to help push yourself along. "I wanted people to experience the sensation of skiing without having to drive three hours to get to the snow," says inventor Jamie Page, 30, a mechanical engineer...
...actually a world-class athlete. The first person ever to represent Thailand at a Winter Games, he was lapped and eliminated from his first event, the 30km, less than a third of the way through. Even in the relatively short time he spent on the Soldier Hollow course, he had time to fall, have the wind knocked out of him, get cramps and lose his goggles...
...morbidity and somberness" creeps into his later work, says De Salvo. Though his paintings preserve the beautiful youth of Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli, in his self-portraits Warhol recorded his own hollow eyes, leathery skin and flagrantly artificial hair. De Salvo sees the preoccupations of someone growing older. She admits, though, that he feared death and was terrified of going back into the hospital, having been seriously injured in 1968 when he was shot by an unbalanced feminist...