Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien to him. Everything is worthy...
...effort to save time during "warm-up," I offered to cut my leg muscles with a hedgeclipper. Satan just smiled. I don't think she heard me, though. She always smiles. She is probably smiling right...
Dazed, I immediately fell four beats behind the rest of the group. My main problem was that whenever Satan changed leg motions--from right kick/searing pain to left kick/searing pain, for example--my arms would drop to my sides...
Herein lies the true danger of aerobics. Society can withstand the few injured bodies and broken souls of status-seeking aerobisizers. But what happens when instructors utilize the mental power they exert over Harvard students, particularly during the left leg kicks" Will they take over the world...
...earlier in the day, Getman received word that his top scorer last season, Captain Paul Baverstock, will miss the entire regular season because of damage to his left knee. Baverstock, injured in the Crimson's preseason scrimmage against a British all-star team, had his leg immobilized in a cast yesterday...