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Most viewers tuning in to the Winter Olympics will be limited to a vocabulary of three small o words: "ooh" for any soaring feat after which the athlete remains in an upright position, "oops" for ungainly plops onto ice or snow and "ouch" for the spectacular disasters. Couch-cozy spectators are likely to remain otherwise speechless at the subtleties of winter sports. They will not be helped by the glossolalia that accompanies the coverage of the Games, including such fascinating but baffling terms as Axels and Lutzes, telemark and super-Gs. Enlightened appreciation will also be hindered by Zen-like...
...combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. At Tufts, plastic surgeons graft skin onto badly burned animals. Vets at special wildlife clinics monitor birds for internal bleeding by taking their blood pressure with cuffs similar to those developed for people. Pets even benefit from therapies not yet available to their upright companions. Veterinary Cancer Specialist Ann Jeglum of the University of Pennsylvania, for example, , uses promising antitumor vaccines, still in the testing stage for people, to treat dogs with lymphoma and cats with breast cancer...
Director Adam Fratto makes the most of The Foreigner's farcical elements. Most of the play's humor comes either from the situation, as Charlie relishes his new persona more and more, or from Shue's witty dialogue. Catherine, feeling guilty because she thinks she is less upright than her fiance, complains, "Some people are just meant to be a waste of food, and I think I'm one of them...
...second referee, a body builder with a shaved head, is sitting bolt upright, like a naughty choirboy, at the other end of the table. The stage lights glisten off his scalp. The audience is shouting wildly now "Smoke him! Smoke him! Top roll!" Teresa has crept up to the stage. She kneels only a few feet from her brother and begins screaming encouragement...
...Even so, recalled Tans, "as soon as we saw it, we knew it was a boat." Tohamy Mahmoud Ali, an Egyptian worker who had helped excavate the first vessel, broke into excited Arabic as he recognized the disassembled ship lying in its narrow pit. At one end were several upright pieces, perhaps parts of the prow...