Word: rollerism
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...born Nathan Birnbaum on New York City's Lower East Side, one of 12 children. By his teens he was doing anything he could to break into vaudeville, from trick roller-skating to performing with a trained seal. "Whatever type of act the booking agent was looking for," he recalled, "happened to be the type of act I did." He did comedy routines with a series of partners, changing his name with each new act--because, he claimed, the booker would never have rehired him if he knew...
...Some people are a little worried...and they go to extremes," Cargman said. "Some people bring roller blade wrist bands...
...most memorable partnerships was with his shadow self (in Cover Girl), another was with a cartoon mouse (in Anchors Aweigh). He danced on roller skates and garbage-can lids (It's Always Fair Weather). And then, of course, there was that umbrella, that downpour, that bepuddled street and that befuddled cop, out of which he and Stanley Donen, his creative partner in all these enterprises, created Singin' in the Rain's signature sequence--and one of the movies' most privileged moments...
...would shave as much as $100 billion from spending during seven years, devoting $25 billion of this to tax cuts. If this package sounds familiar, there's a reason. It's a pale twin of the President's February 1995 budget, the timid postelection plan that launched this yearlong roller-coaster ride in the first place. But there is one new wrinkle: with tax cuts up front, Gingrich's scheme could very well increase the deficit in the next two years, then leave it hovering near $200 billion thereafter...
...addition, Catlin says that when students put away the roller blades and surfboards, a lack of exercise can contribute to the "winter blues." Endorphins, the source of the body's natural "highs," are produced during exercise...