Word: rooftop
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WHAT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU'VE EVER DONE? I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps. When I was standing on top of the building, so many questions came into my head that I'd ordinarily never think about: What if my wheel falls off? What if the seam of the ramp comes up? What if it's wet in one spot? It really messed with my confidence...
...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
Henze's score displays the composer's familiar mastery of a variety of musical idioms, from a seductive rooftop serenade to a dry Stravinskian neoclassicism that accompanies the cat's pompous posturings. The delightful storybook production by Charles Ludlam, founder of New York's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, turns the opera into a tragicomedy in the vein of a 19th century melodrama, but one with a pointed moral. In a season that also includes Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Strauss's neglected Die Liebe der Danae, Santa Fe has proved once again that...
...Facilities: Finest rooftop playground
...pick up some SPF at CVS and start soaking up the Massachusetts sun. A few days on the rooftop should turn your pasty New England body into that of a bronzed...