Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ought to be recognized as a major choreographer; indeed it can already be said that this is Twyla Tharp's year. Her troupe, now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is launched on a national tour featuring three of her jazz classics (Eight Jelly Rolls, Sue's Leg, Baker's Dozen) and some provocative new pieces that break away from the American nostalgia that is her specialty. Nine Sinatra Songs is vintage Tharp, drenched in '40s sentiment but done so well, with every upbeat affirmation so radiantly realized, that no easy label will stick...
...game, only five players' point totals had reached double digits, with senior Gary Martin leading the team in both goals and points (8-5-13). Harvard's biggest scoring threat, center Phil Falcone, will play spectator at the Beanpot. Falcone has been out of the lineup since injuring his leg during Harvard's December trip to Czechoslovakia...
...underwent more than 30 excruciating operations, only, in the end, to have his right leg amputated/Coward, in precarious health, saw his last shows fail. He became a melodic antiques dealer, incongruously parading his elegant wares in Las Vegas. None of this misfortune appeared to affect the victims; to the public, each man presented a sophisticated shrug. Porter's attitude seemed encapsulated in a verse: "It was great fun,/ But it was just one of those things." Coward sang, "I believe that since my life began/ The most I've had is just/ A talent to amuse...
Falcone won't be playing tonight; he'll be sidelined another three to five weeks with the leg injury he suffered in Czechoslovakia. But three of his teammates returned to the lineup in Sunday afternoon's 5-3 month-ending loss to Colgate...
...harder to break your leg skiing these days, and only part of the reason is that modern safety bindings will almost always pop your skis loose in a twisting fall. The rest of the reason is that you probably cannot afford to go skiing in the first place. So it seems, anyway, to skiers who dropped out of the lift lines a few years ago to start careers and have children, or simply to survive the recession. It is a jolt to realize that the tab for a week of skiing at a major resort is now roughly the cost...