Word: roofs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sumo has always seemed a peculiar sport. Two behemoth-size men in loincloths rinse out their mouths with water, throw salt in a clay ring and ram their massive bodies against each other for a few seconds under the suspended roof of a Shinto shrine. "Mysterious. Religious. Philosophical." That's how retired wrestler Keisuke Itai describes sumo. But if accusations he is making are to be believed, it is a sport that is also full of cheaters...
...roof-raising American classical singer and the veteran French composer and pianist rendezvous for a session of bittersweet jazz songs. Legrand selected the tunes (all his own, including Afterthoughts and The Summer Knows), and his piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star of this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument...
...even played five songs from his wayward Smiths days, including the blistering red-light burn of "Meat Is Murder" and the soft melancholy of "Half A Person." In fact, the highlight of the night was the show-stopping finale of "Shoplifters Of The World Unite," which nearly brought the roof down with its frenzied crazes of energy...
...hardly needed these particular experts to tell us that the weight of the average American is ballooning out of control. "We talk incessantly about weight loss," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But obesity levels are going through the roof. We cling to the idea that there is a quick fix." Of course, there isn't, which is why most health experts view Atkins et al. with a healthy dose of skepticism. These diets are extreme, and almost no one is capable of sticking with a no-fat diet, or an all-protein diet or a diet with...
...hippie days extend beyond fashion and decor. Above the door reads, "The Center for High-Energy Metaphysics." According to Co-op legend, the sign was added in the mid 70's after a drug bust. Entrepreneurial Co-opers had a marijuana farm on the roof of "05," the smaller Co-op house on Mass Ave. The plants grew so tall that pedestrians on the street could spot them, as could police. After the raid, they adapted the name of the physics lab on Oxford Street, establishing a new acronym, HEMP...