Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with good reason. The Ghermezian mall contains a mammoth amusement park, with entry free of charge. Fully integrated into the retail complex, it comes complete with roller coasters and carrousels (47 rides in all). The mall also boasts an 18-hole miniature golf course and a $5 million hockey rink where Superstar Wayne Gretzky practices with the Edmonton Oilers. The center's Waterpark sports a 600-ft. water slide and a 2.5-acre artificial lake featuring a replica of the Santa Maria and four yellow, 40-ft. submarines that take tourists on $4 "undersea" adventures...
...Wylie runs through the difficult program which he will unveil at the International SkateAmerica Competition this week, the fourth-ranked male figure skater in the country moves gracefully around the rink, his quick athletic body becoming a colorful blur against the chilly drabness of the skating club walls...
...stage in huge black robes, acting out a patriotic defense of the homeland, or just doing those low Cossack kicks, the dancers rarely lost my normally dance-defying attention. The only inexplicable piece was an overlong sequence in which the dancers pretended they were skating on a Russian ice rink, even executing fake spins. Very impressive. The Ice Capades must not have reached Moscow...
...troupe is still stepping smartly through the pastoral frolic of Polyanka (a small meadow), the gentle gibes of the Old City Quadrille and the patriotic harum- scarum of Partisans, signature pieces all. Even the newer works on the program -- the dazzling, how-do-they-do-that At the Skating Rink and the wackily erotic Night on Bald Mountain -- show the same disciplined panache familiar to Americans from earlier visits...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...