Word: hollowness
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...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...
...call-up in the state's history--as well as 100 U.S. Marshals and 200 Border Patrol agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Surveillance aircraft will circle overhead, with F-16 fighter jets on standby at nearby Hill Air Force Base. While rifle-toting athletes ski the Soldier Hollow biathlon course, armed National Park Service rangers not far away will be patrolling Wasatch Mountain State Park...
...decorative. While their success in serving this purpose is clearly debatable from an aesthetic standpoint, they have been put to use by the artistically talented to display small and bizarre objects, the musically misguided who hunger for the popping noise made by the sound of a flat palm on hollow concrete and the alcoholically-inclined who have discovered that the holes are the exact size and shape as the cap of a beer bottle...