Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening's tour de force is Act II of Tosca, with a lavishly bejeweled Galupe-Borszkh in the title role and the Hungarian baritone "Fodor Szedan" as her nemesis, Baron Scarpia. A much- brandished leg joint of a roast pig, a servant with an infectious body twitch and the wicked baron's narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances -- from Tosca...
...what was perhaps the most interesting aspect of the meet against Dartmouth, freshman Ben Odell survived the "Ironman"--a Harvard tradition where one swimmer competes every race. That includes all the individual events and the medleys, where Odell swam all four legs of each, getting in and out of the pool for each leg...
Harding and her confederacy of dunces thought they could eliminate the Olympic figure-skating competition with one thwack of a metal baton on Nancy Kerrigan's leg. They would then skate to riches, and nobody would know better. In fact, everybody went to jail but Harding, who plea-bargained her way to probation...
When Dawn O'Day, a New York homemaker, saw a TV report last week on commuter- airline safety, she got worried -- and then she got on the phone. Her daughter Misty, a junior at Elon College in North Carolina, was due to fly one leg of her trip back from school last Tuesday on a small commuter-airline turboprop. O'Day canceled those reservations and arranged for Misty to take a limousine from Greensboro to Raleigh and then catch a jet home. Says O'Day: "I told my husband, 'I don't want her on that plane...
...with a knife taped to his hand. Witnesses said Marcelino Corniel, who sleeps in Lafayette Park across from the presidential home, stood still in a semicircle of four officers when one of them advanced, and after Corniel lunged, the officer fired twice, wounding him in the chest and right leg. (Corniel was in critical condition late this afternoon.) But the Park Police, who defended the shooting, released a videotape of the confrontation's final moments, basically affirming the accounts of eyewitnesses. A spokesman denied the police were more likely to fire because of two recent shootings at the mansion -- when...