Word: metallism
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...spent an hour each week with a private coach, perfecting her technique and learning to twirl as many as three batons, a pair of special twirling knives, and burning baton.For the uninitiated, baton twirlers perform a coordinated routine that combines dance and gymnastics, while simultaneously tossing a weighted metal rod. Twirlers often perform with competitive marching bands, most popular at large state universities and high schools in the midwest and south.Liles’ story began among the cow pastures of Rockdale, Texas. After she was admitted to Harvard, Liles, who lives in the rural Texan town, e-mailed...
...refurbished Port Island, delegations of Chinese businessmen tour a vast technology park where city officials are offering tax breaks in the hopes of creating a new high-tech Chinatown. Chen's company headquarters are already here, as are dozens of other Chinese firms specializing in everything from scrap metal to biotech...
...life. Of the university dining hall, Andermans notes: "Friday's pizza was not a food item but a search engine, topped with the mercilessly burnt memories of everything that had been on the past week's menu." De Heer, describing a bombed-out house, is equally vivid: "On a metal table in one of the rooms I spot a typewriter, the type bars warped by rust, a thorny bush of twisted language screaming to the heavens...
...wrist seemed full of beauty and purpose.Holly Rollins, a student at the Graduate School of Education, exhibited incredible strength and flexibility as the dancer and choreographer of “Eat Pray Love.” As the stage lights went up, the audience encountered a large metal hoop suspended from the ceiling. This was the first and only prop of the evening. Dressed in a skintight black bodysuit, Rollins seamlessly moved through a series of contortions reminiscent of her performances with “Cirque du Soleil.” This included flipping in and out of the hoop...
...know the typeof '80s rocker--tight pants, bleached hair, long tongue. Though pop metal (or, to some, "hair metal") is often remembered for big-name bands like Twisted Sister and Mtley Cre, KevinDubrow, the front man for Quiet Riot, was a key force in popularizing the genre. His frequent diatribes against other musicians--and his own record company--could grate. But his gravelly vocals on songs like Cum on Feel the Noize helped propel Riot's 1983 album, Metal Health, to No.1 on Billboard's pop charts, a first for a metal band. Dubrow...