Word: barriere
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When Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers, he not only broke the racial barrier, he also set new standards in baseball: "He looks awkward, but isn't. He stops and starts as though turned off & on with a toggle switch. He seems to hit a baseball on the dead run. Once in motion, he wobbles along, elbows flying, hips swaying, shoulders rocking--creating the illusion that he will fly to pieces with every stride. But once he gains momentum, his shoulders come to order and his feet skim along like flying fish. He is not only jackrabbit fast, but about...
...would-be assassin. So there's the Secret Service, I thought. They seemed invisible until you actually looked at them. I smiled a nice innocent smile and slid past, following our menacing bee-line towards the First Daughter and her luncheon companions. Having passed the security barrier, Chelsea looked up at us in an encouraging way and waited for our greeting...
...that say, 'I'm normal. I'm the same as everyone else.' The effect of that hurt is it says, 'Don't get close to me. I have come back from the dead.' You keep adding and adding to that armor over 30, 40, 50 years, it becomes a barrier to decision making, a barrier to intimacy. It becomes a barrier to everything. Piercing that armor is very, very difficult. I don't know anyone who has done it. He has no close circle of friends. And in this place, friends are vital." When he was auditioning Pennsylvania Governor...
...BARRIER TO MAYHEM...
...They strap on diving gear and swim with manatees (they're the sea cows), giggling as they scratch the animals, because manatees, we learn, love to be scratched. In another episode, the brothers roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site", we watch as a sea cucumber (an animal, actually) eats its lunch. Interspersed throughout the episodes are amusing bits of animation like "Stupid Things Not to Do with Animals" (example: "Never wear a poisonous snake as a necktie...