Word: breathlessness
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...unlikely a horse-racing champion as Seabiscuit. He was undersize, injury prone, had a flayed foreleg and a broken-boned, one-eyed jockey. Yet, thanks to a gifted trainer, Seabiscuit topped his career by beating War Admiral in a sensational meeting in 1938. Hillenbrand's prose is often breathless and overwrought, but readers should ride this one to the wire...
...even in the wake of Columbine and Santee, the figures are chilling, if only because they reinforce every parent's worst fears about life at today's high schools. Those fears are, of course, for the most part fabricated out of the media's breathless, round-the-clock coverage of school shooting sprees. In fact, government records show that gun violence at schools is actually down 65 percent from the 1970s - but these days, the violence gets better coverage. It's spreading out of the inner city and into the "I never thought it would happen here" confines of Middle...
...billion deal with Fox - an expansion of the schedule to cities in the West, Midwest and Northeast, and some new rules designed to make the sport more exciting to the general public. Fox, with the colorful Waltrip in the booth, eagerly applied its particular brand of glitzy graphics and breathless hype to the proceedings. No longer was stock-car racing going to be the Roger Clinton of professional sports - it was making its bid to join baseball, football, basketball, in the American sport mainstream...
...There's something hilarious about even asking. Clinton has lived his entire political life on the model of death-and-resurrection. He wraps himself in chains and padlocks, has himself sealed into a trunk and thrown off the Tallahatchee Bridge; the bubbles rise, the minutes pass, the crowd waits, breathless.... until, at last, up pops Bill, bright as a dime, the Houdini from Hope. The real question is whether Hillary partakes of the magic in her own right...
They say success comes at a price, and for Mario Batali the price is this: despite his three always-booked restaurants in New York City, the breathless reviews from critics, a new Food Network show debuting next week (to complement his first, which is still airing), two cookbooks, a lovely family and a clean bill of health after surviving a brain aneurysm, Batali is always the other great American chef...