Word: lifting
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...Principle, Victoria has joined with “a team of leading beauty experts to develop a revolutionary skin care system.” On the infomercial advertising her “Principle Secret” skin care line, Principle entreats viewers to get “a face-lift feel in just 30 minutes a day.” A contrived testimonial from desperate-for-cash “Little House on the Prairie” actress Melissa Gilbert confirms that Principle’s secret truly can “turn back time.” While...
Alarmed by the exotic trend, the International Skating Union felt moved to issue Communication No. 1115, "following many complaints," telling skaters to cut out "undignified poses/positions" such as sustained upside-down splits. The problem for ice dancers has always been that they are not allowed to lift their partners above head height, and before the start of last season the ISU had sought to expand the repertoire with an encouragement to skaters to develop more "original" movements. Some of the lifts turned out to be rather more interesting than the ISU anticipated. Now the organization is trying...
Chores done, 11 of us clamber into our basket, and we lift off from the southern tip of the valley. We rise silently over one of Australia's most prosperous and lovely regions, just as the first rays of dawn begin to spread over the landscape. Then the romance starts. Viticulture in the Hunter Valley began in the early 1820s but only in the 1960s did the wine industry of the lower valley begin to flourish. By the '80s it had superseded coal mining as the centerpiece of the local economy. These days about 160 grape growers and 43 wineries...
...morning peace, as our pilot John forces the balloon higher. By now, a brilliant sun has burned off the early morning chill. We sail over Cessnock, an old mining town laid out like a chessboard, as a 75-carriage coal train snakes through the countryside. Another blast and we lift to 300 m. From that height we can see a 40-km stretch of the valley?a lush strip running east to west. To the north flows the mighty Hunter River and on the southwestern horizon rises the magnificent Brokenback Range. Tawny mineral-rich hills act as a watershed, enriching...
...same reason I married you,’ she murmured. ‘To help pass the time.’” When he returns from work that evening, he can’t move a chair to sit in, open the door of the refrigerator, or lift the phone receiver to call the police. And then, he hears his wife, hanging upside down from the ceiling, laughing. He makes a stack of books to climb on and get his wife down, when he realizes...