Word: airlessly
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...mention anything about boys, and my dad goes crazy." She has weird rituals. Ask her about her injury-free career, and she scurries for a balance beam to knock wood. Most refreshing, unlike so many world-class gymnasts, who sound as if they've spent too many hours in airless gyms inhaling chalk powder and practicing the mantra "I just want to do the best I can," Moceanu is forthright. She admits she wants to win--but is prepared to lose. "That's what makes you stronger," she says. "The hard times...
...have changed, while women have remained, on average, closer to where both sexes used to be: favoring, for example, the use of public resources for something other than the construction of prisons and bombs. If men are from Mars, as the best seller claims, or some similarly parched and airless planet, then women have been on earth all along, and the real mystery is: What has been happening to the guys...
...followed every pro sport with religious fervor and adolescent passion," Carcaterra writes on one page. On the next: "We cared little for Knicks basketball and barely tolerated Giants football." The author writes emotionally of a Greek hot-dog vendor he and his friends robbed: "We never saw the tiny, airless fourth-floor room he lived in, a 40-minute walk from his station, its only comfort a tattered collection of pictures from home, crudely taped to the wall nearest the worn mattress of his bed. We never saw the hot stove, topped by empty cans of Campbell's pork...
...Mortgage King and some guy who flosses his teeth all the time. They're rich, sick, steeped in shame and caffeine, and "in the heat of sale, they needed to keep talking, and they said whatever came to them, as long as it was just color commentary ." So airless is this hive, it is not till near the book's midpoint that we learn that the office action, as distinct from the global flow of byte-driven hysteria, takes place in San Francisco. Some of the brighter salesmen muse about quitting, but to do what? As this amiable tour...
...sadness with a knowing honesty reminiscent of Edna O'Brien. Augusta cannot bear thoughts of her husband's existing in the world without her. "It was the fact that he wasn't dead that worked me like a pin on a balloon," she says, "stabbing me and leaving me airless. Flat...