11.   Ice sculptures were commissioned.

12.   It has revved up drab Astana with brightly decorated buildings and restaurants and a delightful playground of ice sculptures and slides that lights up at night.

13.   Much is made of swan-shaped ice sculptures.

14.   NEXT, THE COPIER WILL REPRODUCE POPSICLES Does the world need a computer printer that spits out ice sculptures?

15.   Quebec was celebrating its winter carnival when we arrived, and hordes of well-insulated revelers were admiring the crystalline splendor of ice sculptures throughout the city.

16.   So while the Stars were busy carving ice sculptures with high-speed skating and slick stick handling, the Ducks were making snowballs out of the ice shavings.

17.   The evening ends with a gala buffet in which ice sculpture is elevated to a fine art.

18.   The first casualty is Vatel himself, a perfectionist who worries over every last candied grape, sticks his fingers in every bowl, checks every ice sculpture.

19.   There I was, up well past my bedtime, ogling some ridiculous ice sculpture that Olympic anchorman Jim Nantz deemed to be tasteful.

20.   There was an ice sculpture, two huge cream cakes, pink knives to cut the cake and an extensive Mexican buffet including Margaritas and mariachis.