Word: rocks
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Think screaming and yelling, but with bagpipes and accordions. Watch the Dropkick Murphys and rock out with the folks...
...called "The Last Marathon" - a 26.2-mile race across ice, rock, snow, and mud on Antarctica's King George Island. Runners huddle by the start line, shielded from the wind in the lee of a Russian research base, before bursting out along the rugged, hilly course. Up and down three quarters of a mile of glacier - twice - and looping through a further three Antarctic research stations, the 145 finishers race in hats, gloves, fleece and windbreakers. In fact, on race day in late February, it's warm enough to be snowing - this is, after all, the end of the Antarctic...
...farmers playing atop the banks dividing their rice paddies. Even Afghanistan has been touched by the contagion: Since the fall of the Taliban in 2002, thousands of returning Afghan refugees who fell in love with the game during their years in Pakistan now play on the rock-hard fields around Kabul...
...direction is never obtrusive. What’s more, the show’s hard-rockin’ musical score would be ill-served by elaborate set pieces or complicated dance numbers. Better to let the show’s black-clad ensemble cast move a little, rock out when things get loud, and leave it at that...
...albeit plot-mandated surreality—to an otherwise fairly straightforward set. The other notable aspect of the set, which was designed by Courtney E. Thompson ’09 and suggests an apartment with a few pieces of furniture, is an abstract hanging in the back like fragmented rock, a touch that is appropriately in keeping with the increasingly broken family of the play...