Word: stamina
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...playing multiple roles, four or five characters. It will blow your world how they play them, what they bring. There’s really not a better way to spend your Friday night. The trial by fire nature of a first-time directorship has certainly tested Jones’ stamina. Tired though she may be, thoughts of the future are already on mind.I certainly hope I’ll keep up directing. I’ll keep applying to be a director next year. I’ve just learned so, so much. The learning curve for these things...
What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? To leap over handicap-access ramps like Donkey Kong? The answer is parkour, a jaw-dropping hybrid of gymnastics and cross-country running that is equal parts Spider-Man whimsy and hard-core stamina. The word is derived from the French term for obstacle course, and like it or not, U.S. college campuses are becoming hot spots for this exhilarating new breed of steeplechase--horse-free and adaptable to any setting. Google parkour, campus and map, and you'll find, among some 58,000 results, an annotated parkour...
...good review goes over the head, and a bad review goes through my heart. And I look at what my father coped with on a much, much more personal basis. I don't know how he did it. It took a sort of stoicism and a kind of stamina. But he did do the best he could with what he had at hand during the rest of his life...
...Alcina, Anna Strada, was unkindly described by a contemporary as having "so little of Venus in her appearance, that she was usually called the Pig." But more than anyone else, it was a 33-year-old Australian, 225 years later, who put Alcina center stage. Joan Sutherland's stupendous stamina and strength in Franco Zeffirelli's 1960 production at La Fenice not only earned her the title of La Stupenda but single-handedly brought this neglected opera back into the repertoire. Since being snapped up by New York's Metropolitan Opera for its young artists' development program in 2001, Perth...
...working at his day job in the financial sector, Roberto Ruiz spends his time the way a growing number of Nicaraguan men do: training roosters for razorblade battles to the death. It's like training a boxer, he says. A good program includes running the bird to build stamina (hooded sweatshirt optional), putting the bird in the sun to sweat out grease and develop plumage, and throwing the bird up in the air to build wing strength...