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...class has begun. Tracie L. Brown '92, a champion ice skater and a Harvard instructor, has her students--approximately 20 of them--line up against the wall. Half of them come forward at the signal and attempt to do backwards turns on two feet...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: A Bruised Bottom Never Hurt Anyone | 2/23/1991 | See Source »

...talking blues called Tom's Diner, punks and Valley Girls mingle with waiters and commuters, while a pelvis- wiggling Boitano gooses every woman in sight. Gary Beacom, whose skating blends performance art and circus theatrics, does an uproarious first-act | number in which herky-jerky movements suggest every skater's nightmare: impending spills onto the ice. In the second act Beacom crawls and skitters like Spiderman, then skates from end to end of the arena while encased in black, including a hood that blocks his vision. Valova and Vasiliev join Underhill and Martini for a campy imitation of peasant dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Spectacle for Thinking Adults | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...college level," O'Hearne added, "[the play] is perhaps more wide open--you aren't allowed to fight. You can't have a guy who's going to explode. In the Soviet style, you need to play a finesse game, and Tod's a pretty decent skater...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Hartje to Play Soviet Hockey | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...This year's [guest list of skaters] is thestrongest skater line-up ever," said Eliot HouseJimmy Fund co-chair Jessica L. Deysach '90. "It'shard to find people with high name appeal...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Jimmy Fund Iceskating Gala Marks Anniversary | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...ended. Stalin was fond of lavishing kindness on his friends, even as he meticulously planned their arrests, torture, trials and death. When one high official, I.A. . Akulov, received a near fatal concussion while skating, Stalin rushed foreign doctors to the U.S.S.R. to treat him. As soon as the skater recovered, Stalin had him shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Monster Brought to Life | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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