Word: skater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson's most visible athlete at the international level did not compete for Harvard in his premiere sport. Figure-skater...
...when Harvard Square was occupied by establishments like the Tasty, a 70-year-old burger joint that served up floats, fries and friendliness at all hours of the night. Yet, the Tasty has been closed for almost four years now, replaced by a renovated shopping complex that serves PacSun skater gear to spike-haired boys who hang in the pit and A&F posters to pre-pubescent girls on their way home from CRLS. High rents and corporate expansions have effaced a once student friendly neighborhood, replacing locally owned businesses loyal to the College crowd, with impersonal retail chains, office...
...doll, expected to land in stores in June. Fortieth-anniversary Ken will be sold with a tiny replica of the very first Ken, who wore a red bathing suit with a yellow towel. Over the years, Ken has come in many versions, including soldier Ken, lifeguard Ken, Olympic skater Ken, sailor Ken and even cowboy Ken--in short, all the Village People. Curiously, he and Barbie never married...
...profiles in this collection range from skater Tonya Harding and designer Bill Blass to Spain's pre-eminent female matador and New York City's pre-eminent vendor of ceiling fans. The metaphors in these wryly detached yet not dispassionate observations rarely miss. (Blass is described as someone who "no matter where he is, he looks as if he might be standing on the deck of a big sailboat.") But just as evocative as Orlean's sketches of people are her renderings of place. The portrait of Harding's hometown in Clackamas County, Ore., reveals as much about the skater...
BRAND X Bill Gates wants you to hold off buying that PlayStation2. Microsoft's Xbox game console won't arrive for 10 months, but developers are already promising their popular game franchises, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Oddworld and WWF Raw Is War. The demos look great, but the high-tech hardware still doesn't fit into the cool case that debuted last week at CES in Las Vegas...