Word: skates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pairs you need lifting strength. For singles you need to be light enough to jump well." But he became a chronic advice taker, and not of the push, push, push variety. Judges and other rinkside seers are very free with their opinions. Says the skater: "They'd say, 'Skate faster, put in a spin here, more footwork there.' It was a great mistake to listen...
...SKATE!" which means to skate quickly down...
...brightest idea is to call on Stockard Channing, ace resuscitator of mediocre films (see her work in Smoke and To Wong Foo), who arrives mid-movie to perk things up. She's a local anchor who oozes compassion but, off-air, is so cool and hard you could skate on her. She meets Tally for a drink, asks, "Is that actually a banana daiquiri?" and acidly adds, "Spring Break, Lauderdale...
...into circuses this month, the ones proposed as Skate Night and Casino Night seem to be much more appropriate uses of the council's resources. These smaller deals involve more community interaction, more hands-on management (and thus opportunities to build confidence in the council's ability to organize and implement) and far less money. With regard to community- and credibility-building, spending an afternoon learning to skate, or an evening playing blackjack for charity, would accomplish everything that a concert could, and more...
...only speculate on what became of Oliver Schmidt's research. Perhaps one of the skate rats wandered across the street from the pit by the T station and discovered the unlocked bike. Maybe the composition books full of notes on German-American relations provided a brief diversion from the hackey-sack games favored by the tattooed, purple-haired, unwashed denizens...