Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tennis court, Monica Seles is so gentle that you almost have to laugh at the disparity. She giggles, she smiles, she's perpetually upbeat. By the end of my interview with her, I understood why Monica--one of the most famous athletes in the world--left her own message on my answering machine. It's because Monica has no fronts, no walls around her. She lives simply and honestly...
...what of the future? In most other sports -football, basketball, and golf, for instance -the top professionals all have families, kids, the whole package. In tennis, the unbelievably demanding full-year schedule makes it almost impossible for players to have stable family lives until after they're retired...
...They're very cleverly written, so that almost anybody would say, 'Oh yeah! That's me!' It's the self-identification they depend on. But if you clipped off all the dates and shuffled them all around and handed them out, people would again say, 'Oh yeah! That...
...design are an unpredictable mix of slick sophistication and base grittiness. Main characters are perpetually dressed in impeccable Armani suits, the background music is of epic quality, and the plotlines are complex and multi-layered. At the same time, the aforementioned campiness has a tendency to descend to an almost amateurish level. The opening sequence, which hasn't changed since the show began, looks like it was pasted together in a high school video class, and the technical crew is never going to win any awards for incredible special effects. But instead of detracting from the show, these unpolished aspects...
...despite the array of candidates, the winners were almost all incumbents...