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...Aamodt, whose ski-coach father used to blindfold him on skis to teach him the feel of the snow, he is fast succeeding the Austrian Marc Girardelli, who competes for Luxembourg, as the world's best all-around skier. Leading in World Cup points, the charismatic Norwegian skis both downhill and slalom and could well rack up more medals this week. "In Norway we used to have the attitude that you should not do something special -- or at least you should not think you are special," Aamodt said. "But now we are developing a winner's attitude...
...president has also said that United States military forces would only be used as part of a multilateral peace-keeping force to enforce any settlement that is reached. It seems that Clinton is willing to wear a moral blindfold, to look the other way and work with the system in order to avoid military action...
...Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...
...Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...
Siri Hustvedt is an impressive new talent. THE BLINDFOLD (Poseidon; $20), her series of tales about an alienated young woman in New York, draws the reader compellingly into the odd consciousness of the narrator and heroine, Iris. Hustvedt's characters are hypnotized by their own dangerous, barely understood impulses. A writer hires Iris to describe the possessions of a girl he thinks he may have murdered. In a later story, Iris dons men's clothing and spends months prowling downtown Manhattan at night, as though drawn onward by the Imp of the Perverse. Relationships, like everything else in Hustvedt...