Word: shin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last came two days of slaloms, short, twisting, violent races. Racers wearing heavily padded gloves and shin protectors charge straight at hinged flag gates and bash them aside. Schneider took a slim lead after the first run but fretted that she had been too passive. She is a country mouse from the tiny village of Elm, who at 13 quit school and competitive skiing to keep house after her mother died. She lists her hobby as knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead...
Mamboleo provided a stunning personal performance as she won the 55-m dash in 7.42 seconds, upsetting a heavily-favored Army field. The Yardling had trimmed her training schedule over the past week while nursing a painful pair of shin splints...
...being stoned, blindfolded two teenagers and tied them to the hoods of their jeeps. On Wednesday night Israelis were horrified by television footage of a man in civilian clothes firing an Uzi submachine gun into a crowd of rock-throwing Palestinians. He was later identified as an agent of Shin Bet, Israel's internal-security service. The agent will reportedly be disciplined, but officials appeared less upset by the act itself than by the fact that it was captured on film. At week's end the trouble spread to East Jerusalem, where mobs of Palestinian youths rioted through the streets...
...director Michael Shin's production, set and lighting effects are minimal (and ill-handled), and Shin focuses on his actors instead of their surroundings. This is probably a wise decision given the limitations of the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Shin does wonders with costumes. He has turned three teenagers into very convincing looking ma, pa, and China Mama, using hairstyle and clothing to age the young faces...
...that for the only Caucasian character in the play Shin chose Jeff Karpel, who can hardly keep a straight face, cannot decide whether to deliver his lines to the audience or the other characters and has no real stage presence...