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Wally Hollyday, 48, who designed the Sayreville park, helped conceive his first one in 1977, when he was an 18-year-old disillusioned by what he found when he moved to California from New Jersey. "For me, it's about getting really interesting, organic shapes that flow," he says. "Skating came out of surfing. Waves are curved and moving, and they change shape at all times. When you put up concrete, you need to put those curves and moves into...
...essential element of most great skate parks is the bowls--rounded craters that can be as deep as 12 ft., which skaters can barrel down, building enough speed to coast along the walls and climb the rim. All bowls--round, oval and peanut-shaped--are descended from the ur-bowl of skateboarding, an empty swimming pool. But park design has moved far from the basic pool formations. "Now it's about taking those and intersecting them," says Hollyday. "I have to keep thinking of the next shape...
...wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers. And we're not recognized as such. There's a notion that people have that there is no writing in reality television, and that's just not true. We think about what story we will shape for each contestant. We consider story lines and create a sense of drama around the girls. This is just what a writer on Lost would...
...government is a minister of God, "an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil?" She told the doctors she wanted her hair shaved so she could see the number 666--the mark of the Antichrist--on her scalp. She also wanted her hair cropped in the shape of a crown, perhaps the kind the Bible says Jesus will give to those who have won salvation...
...unlikely to achieve the knockout blow they'd hoped to deliver against Hizballah. The question that will be settled, both on the battlefield and in the chambers of diplomacy in the coming days, is which side will have to concede more in the cease-fire that will ultimately take shape...