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...caller'swhim. A typical sequence might be: "ladies chainwith a courtesy turn, then chain those ladiesright back again," or "left allemande with yourcorner, do sa do your partner. "When the moreexperienced club members are dancing, the callsget more florid, evoking tropical scenes ("make anocean wave"), carnivals ("ferris wheel"), andhelicopters ("rotary flight...
...easing up for the last 400 m. In that race, German Jacqueline Boerner edged teammate Niemann for the gold, completing a comeback almost as dramatic as Ye's. While training on her bike outside Berlin in August 1990, Boerner was struck -- deliberately, she claims -- by a driver behind the wheel of a Trabant, the flimsiest vehicle on four wheels. "If it had been a real car, I wouldn't be here," she can now joke. But even Trabants are tougher than bikes, and Boerner broke an ankle and tore ligaments in her knee, which sent her to a hospital...
Tuesday, Feb. 24: Medicine Wheel AnimationFestival...
...facing the tanks in Tiananmen Square. But did Vaclav Havel and his fellow playwrights free Czechoslovakia by quoting Derrida or Lyotard on the inscrutability of texts? Assuredly not: they did it by placing their faith in the transforming power of thought -- by putting their shoulders to the immense wheel of the word. The world changes more deeply, widely, thrillingly than at any moment since 1917, perhaps since 1848, and the American academic left keeps fretting about how phallocentricity is inscribed in Dickens' portrayal of Little Nell...
...popular idea is that Detroit hadn't really tried in the past. It didn't tailor cars to the Japanese market -- for example, by putting the steering wheel on the right side...