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...Buisse, who struts around Paris in nothing but a trenchcoat which she removes whenever possible. When a young French hooligan solicits Marie (pretty, seeing the widower) for "the finishing touches," Angele bluntly shows him to the visually poetic door. "I speak to be heard," she replies to Marie's shock at her language. This is one of the lines i remember verbatim...
...also forced Brook to ride a metal panda bear fixed on a large spring in a nearby playground. We thought, if nothing else, a man dressed up in a crash helmet, fighter boots and shock gloves would inspire the kids at recess. More than inspired, they made their wisdom heard by yelling "hey, helmet-head," and "look at panda-man." The shots came out stellar...
What seems so strange about the Beautiful South to American listeners is the overriding lack of interest in aural shock. There's no shouting, no distorted guitar noise and rarely an unexpected chord change. Instead, the group's songwriter Paul Heaton rolls out slow, beautiful pop songs backed by melodic tunes that never pretend to be anything but accompaniment. This is not to imply that something is lacking in the music. It is rich, profound and mood-setting-qualities which have made the band's albums bestsellers in their native Britain...
When Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer last winter, her immediate instinct--after recovering from the initial shock, of course--was to keep her condition a secret...
Finally, women can protect their knees by improving their balance. This can be done by building up the muscles surrounding the knees. These muscles serve as shock absorbers, reducing the force that eventually gets transferred to the ACL and protecting against excessive rotation at the knee joint. Working on balance boards for as little as 20 minutes a day over a period of six weeks can improve coordination of the hamstrings and the gastrocnemius muscles in the calves, protecting the ACL during athletic twists and turns. Training properly and developing physical conditioning will not only help level the playing field...