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...After giving his legs a full stretch, McGonagle takes off on the next lap, giving it a go with cadets more than two decades his junior. Karwowski, who shattered his knee playing football with a group of cadets only a couple of years ago, is already on the track...
...center of this other Africa is Precious, "traditionally built," beautiful, independent and wise - the incarnation of a self-assured continent. But Minghella couldn't find her. "Over eight months, I went three times around a lap of England, the U.S. and Africa looking for an actor to play Precious," he says. "We workshopped it with eight or nine people, some very big stars. I basically gave up." Finally, while trawling YouTube two months before shooting was due to start, Minghella came across a poetry performance by Grammy Award?winning R&B singer Jill Scott, and "saw something...
DIED Cancer took the eyesight of Grammy-nominated rocker Jeff Healey before he turned 1. So at 3 he started playing the guitar on his lap, a style that became his trademark. As a teen, he gigged in Toronto clubs before starting his best-known group, the Jeff Healey Band. The blues-rock trio, who got a boost from their role in the Patrick Swayze film Road House, made it big with the achy, affecting 1989 hit Angel Eyes. On the side, Healey played jazz and deejayed a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio show drawing on his collection...
...politics. There was Miss Dirty Martini, who came onstage dressed as blind justice and proceeded to gorge herself on dollar bills. It was an indictment of the Bush administration, and she had an American flag covering her crotch. Krylon Superstar started off by giving members of the audience a lap dance and then sang a protest song. The sparkler he put up his ass had, I think, something to do with America. I talked to Miss Dirty Martini after the show, and she told me that burlesque was an American folk art, the dance equivalent of jazz. There was something...
...always joke that pole vaulters are head cases,” Stanton said. “But [Clara]’s super, super consistent as an athlete. [She] never misses a day, she’s never late, always excited, will do more situps, run an extra lap, do another interval. She’s a great example for the rest of the team.”With the Heptagonal Championships coming up again on March 1, Blattler will have another opportunity to add on to her Harvard record.As for her future pole vaulting plans...