Hints and tips:
...“[Trump] has an uncanny ability to remain motivated and hard charging, when I think the average person would just curl up into a ball,” said Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, in Palm Beach on Saturday...
...A small Chinese academic study promoted by Alvin Wang Graylin, the China president of the electronics company HTC, found that virtual reality games were almost 50 per cent more addictive than PC ones....
...They’re mostly bejewelled balls that look like Christmas baubles. And there’s one bright bejewelled banana. It’s very compelling....
...The soundtrack by Israeli ravemeister Ori Lichtik is a thumping, whining composition — not so much a rhythm section as a rhythmic wrecking ball....
...The $350 pingpong-ball-sized sphere is embedded with two fisheye lenses and can send video to a smartphone wirelessly....
...The regular thud of a wrecking ball serves as accompaniment....
...Other readables Quartz interviews Alvin Roth, the Nobel-winning economist who designs matching mechanisms for kidneys and medical students....
...All that remains is a bulbous building known as the “golf ball”....
...But we don’t have a crystal ball.” Is that really the problem when it seems we have an entire shop of Manolo Blahniks about to fall on our heads? It might be....
...If I’m in a fish tank it’s a lot easier than if I’m doing Laurieann Gibson’s fucking modern Alvin Ailey choreography....
...When Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Wig Out! opened last year off-Broadway to enthusiastic reviews, I asked myself: what are my colleagues smoking and where can I get some?...
...Royal Court Theatre, London There’s a significant ball, lots of frocks and any amount of men in drag....
...No, “Ozploitation” movies, from the priapic sex capers of Alvin Purple to the gore and guignol of Road Games and Turkey Shoot....
...“Going to balls with them, seeing how they relate to each other....
...“Contemporary” outweighs ballet, especially since Rhoden has a legacy of Alvin Ailey and other modern dance influences....
...: Miami, which, despite fierce competition from Balls of Fury, holds on to its position as the year’s lamest comedy....
...(Radio 4, another synonym for highbrow culture, is also getting in on the Jay-Z franchise, with money guru Alvin Hall quizzing the “president of hip-hop” on December 2.)...
...Michelle Collins, Alvin Harrison and Chryste Gaines also failed. They are all standout performers and all formally accused of doping violations stemming from the Balco case....
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