Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad had just returned from a training jaunt to St. Petersburg, Fla. prior to the meet. Rival cited the positive effects the top had on the team saying, "It left us refreshed and ready...
...squad next travels to St. Petersburg, Fla. for a vacation training session in preparation for its 1985 Ivy League schedule...
...Czar Alexander III asked a St. Petersburg jeweler, Carl Faberge, to make an Easter present for his Empress. The gold and enamel egg so pleased the monarch that he commissioned at least one every Easter. His successor, Nicholas II, continued the tradition, and for the next 31 years, until the Bolsheviks put an end to such inspired extravagance, there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside...
Doonesbury has a history of acerbity. But some clients find Trudeau more combative than ever. Newspapers, including the generally liberal St. Petersburg Times (circ. 300,000) and Anniston (Ala.) Star (circ. 31,000), have bumped panels on grounds of fairness or taste; at least four others have canceled outright. Said Bob Peterson, editorial-page editor of California's Chico Enterprise-Record (circ. 27,000), which dropped Doonesbury after touting its return: "It got progressively more biased. Trudeau is using a comic strip for a personal political soapbox." Still, the strip appears in 823 papers, its alltime high. Says Executive...
...opening phrase of Balanchine's Theme and Variations. The girls are played by male dancers (Johan Renvall and Thomas Titone) performing, Tchikaboumskaya-style, on pointe. In the ballroom scene, Renvall even tosses off some free-swinging fouettes, a bow to the legendary Pierina Legnani, who stunned St. Petersburg in 1893 by doing 32 fouettés in Cinderella...