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...will have the greatest impact. Both the Crimson men’s and women’s squads have improved substantially over the past three years, but UMass—its rival in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Northern Division—has always presented a stiff challenge to Harvard’s postseason prospects...
Hughes' cool performance chilled her competitors into stiff responses. The eye-catching Cohen, after a solid short program, could not hold the landing of her triple-triple jump, and though she skated on brilliantly, portraying Bizet's Carmen, her performance lacked the energy of Hughes' routine. She and Hughes will surely be fighting for honors for years. Kwan clearly lacked magic, skating with little speed and tumbling clumsily and uncharacteristically doing a triple flip halfway through her program. The powerful Slutskaya didn't fall but stumbled several times...
...nutshell, is what doctors call a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. What it feels like is the worst headache of your life. My patients have described it as a "thunderclap" in the head followed by blinding pain, nausea and vomiting. They can't look at bright lights. Their necks get stiff. Confusion sets in. Half the people who suffer through one don't live to describe...
...Fred, like his movies, was nowhere when not dancing. In his films? long dialogue scenes, the actor Astaire seemed both stiff and fluttery, feckless - not superhuman, as he did in the big numbers, but sub-par. Indeed, that?s one thing that made his dances stand out: they were so much more suavely realized than the rest of the enterprise, and Astaire came truly alive only when he was in them. Kelly, a believer in artistic integration, gave just as much attention to "the rest of the movie." He acted-danced with the same concentrated energy that he danced-acted...
...called) have spastic cerebral palsy, the most common form, accounting for nearly 80% of cases. "We first noticed that they weren't walking when they should," Cindy recalls. "Instead they were only doing the combat crawl." Their brains seemed to be developing age appropriately, but their muscles were unnaturally stiff, making walking difficult if not impossible...