Word: shadowboxing
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...creative after a while. All the work, always doing something instead of having a place to just create—it made it tough to stay with a creative side,” says Michael Gould ’05, whose stay in Cambridge has forced his band, Shadowbox, to take a hiatus. “People just expect perfection of themselves, [but] it makes it hard to perfect what you’re doing when you expect yourself to be perfect...
...creative after a while. All the work, always doing something instead of having a place to just create—it made it tough to stay with a creative side,” says Michael Gould ’05, whose stay in Cambridge has forced his band, Shadowbox, to take a hiatus. “People just expect perfection of themselves, [but] it makes it hard to perfect what you’re doing when you expect yourself to be perfect...
...Palestinian state. But last week's accord, fought for and won over nine tumultuous days, created new momentum toward a permanent peace, the first such movement in 19 months. What Arafat called "a big step which came late" also opened the tantalizing possibility that Netanyahu, who previously seemed to shadowbox with the peace process, had now committed himself irretrievably to work toward a final settlement. It also provided a stage for Clinton, hobbled by problems at home, to play statesman instead of defendant...
Brown told Plimpton that it was O.K. to shadowbox at a professional gym, like Stillman's, but he should get out of the ring immediately if anyone else got in. "Those guys'll hit anything moving," the author was warned, "the timekeeper, if he got in there; a handyman sent in to check the ring posts; anybody. And as for a writer, those guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated...
...copy of Sports News were treated to a smashing journalistic tripleheader. One major story reported on Kung Fu matches in the rural communes. Another offered a detailed and edifying answer to a reader's query asking whether an athlete who is afflicted with piles should play badminton and shadowbox (he should). The third scoop was a blow-by-blow account of how Chiang Ch'ing, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, murdered her ailing husband last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that...