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Frank is a fit, 59-year-old insurance adjuster who had felt the pop during a kickboxing class 10 days before. He immediately had a pretty good idea of what had happened, so after limping out of the gym, he called an old friend who is a retired orthopedist. "He said he was pretty sure it was my Achilles, but I wanted an MRI to be sure. He just said 'fine' and gave me the prescription." I spoke with Frank and showed him the powerlessness of his ankle - the squeeze test. I even had him put his finger into...
...ligne Claire, or clear line: simple lines of almost uniform thickness, with no shading. His technique, which created an uncluttered image with robust, universal elements, influenced cartoonists that followed, such as Asterix creators Goscinny and Uderzo, and the Smurfs' Peyo. And while Tintin never made it big in America, Pop Art stars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein recognized Hergé as an inspiration for the Pop Art movement. The museum has three portraits of Hergé painted by Warhol, who once said that the Belgian artist "influenced my work as much as Disney," and Lichtenstein designed the cover for Frederic...
...Part of this disapproval centers around simple distaste for rule breaking. A-Rod is a cheater. College students who pop Adderall and Ritalin without prescriptions are, at least technically, criminals. But that can’t be the end of the story. If we had no cause to condemn performance enhancement other than its illegality, there would be little sense in maintaining our bans and proscriptions...
...Sanders Theatre.SERENDIPITYIn short order, Brown began receiving accolades from the professional music industry for her playing. In 1991, she collected the most prestigious of awards for a bluegrass instrumentalist—the International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year.In 1992 she began touring as band leader with pop-folk artist Michelle Shocked, and in 1995 she launched her own record label, Compass Records, with her husband bassist Gary West.Brown recalls that the process of starting her own label brought her back to the gates of her alma mater. She remembers picking up Harvard Magazine in the Charles Hotel...
...Olson and Falcone would exchange tapes—a favorite was ’80s pop music duo Hall & Oates—and play them on long bus rides to games...