Word: skating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bowl games and a No. 2 national ranking in the past six years). Says one faculty member: "Only being No. 1 counts for anything . . . getting there is all that counts as long as you don't land in jail." Advocates of this hard-line boosterism hoped that S.M.U. could skate past the death penalty and be back to business as usual in '88 after the probation ends...
Before the game, the Zamboni clears the ice. There's something pure about clean ice. And it seems like an act of desecration when the referees pounce onto it just before the game begins and skate around, carving up the smooth surface...
...teams come out soon after and loosen up. Some players stretch their legs on the sides of the boards. The goalies skate to the nets and slash up the ice in front of them. Getting comfortable. Finding a rhythm...
Indeed, no other individual or duo has glided with such felicitous daring across frozen water. "It is the way they get from Point A to Point B," says Andris Toppe, their ballet master. "A lot of skaters will skate to A, do a little trick, then travel to B and do another trick. It's boring. But the way Jayne and Chris cover the distance is choreographed. You are never bored...
They reckon they have another ten years left to skate before muscles and energy give out. Along the way, they plan to start a school for child skaters. At that point they may even have time for social lives. "We know people all over the world," laughs Dean, "but we have no friends." No friends -- only thousands of admirers clapping their hands nearly raw each night, for as long as T & D choose to lace up their skates...