Word: paired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part in the sport's growth, skating has attracted not only sporting goods outlets but also major retailers like Macy's and Marshall Field. They now sell not only skates but also items of rolling paraphernalia like arm and knee pads priced at $5 to $15 a pair and $10 visors that light up at night for safety. Roller fashions are also in demand. Chicago Designer Roberta Jakus' "Roller Rinx" line of satin, spaghetti-strap tank tops and shorts and jackets are selling at $43 per outfit. One manufacturer is preparing a line of skates that look...
...sports facilities are impressive the amenities anything but. Toilets are few, far between and largely unsanitary. Every mother's advice has never been more apropos: 'Go to the bathroom before you leave.' Bring a seat cushion-most of the stands are bleacher-style seating-and a pair of powerful binoculars to use in the immense stadiums. If possible, take taxis, buses and subways. Don't drive yourself: street signs are almost all in Russian and left turns are illegal in Moscow. Above all, be patient...
...first lesson Ryan learns from cancer is how quickly the very word alienates the victim from ordinary life. One pair of friends, when told, sink into embarrassed silence, making Ryan feel that he has committed "some unpardonable gaffe." Colleagues and publishers cannot be trusted: "Somebody's bound to say," he notes, " 'Well, we really can't ask Ryan to do this article or count on him to finish this book, because the poor bastard's got cancer.' " Later on, there are the unbearable pain and disfiguring side effects of powerful drugs. Cushing's syndrome...
They are easy to miss-at first. Arikha loathes spectacle and the tyranny of impact; his paintings, small, low-colored, high-keyed, are owls, not peacocks. They are single images, enumerations of ordinary objects-a battered pair of black shoes, a stoneware jug, or a bunch of asparagus tied in blue paper set down with an odd, veiled discomposure. The size of the painting laconically follows the size of its subject. Isolated and closely scrutinized, these motifs give Arikha's canvases a likeness (insofar as painting can ever resemble writing) to the elliptical sentences of his friend Samuel Beckett...
...rest of the Great American Pasttime has moved into kingdoms of billboard-mania, architectural nausea, and modern-day dull. Perhaps the fact that this pair of ballparks also happen to be two of the oldest active structures in the major leagues may have something to do with their special characters. Nonethless, these baseball museums stand far above the rest when it comes to nostalgia and just a good old day at the ballgame...