skating on glare ice

This is most notably the case when the surviving writer is also an AIDSer (also surviving a dying) or is so closely bonded with the one who has died as to deny the difference in their identities (as, for example, in Monette's Borrowed Time).

I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.

If you are a parent in New York, you dread the screamfest known as the lead test.