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...with me, ladies and gentlemen, Svetlana Khorkina. Thank God for Russian divas! America could never produce a Dostoyevskian heroine like Khorkina - with her razor sharp hair line, her aquiline features, her glares, her screams, her wails, her brilliant hits and her spectacular crashes. At the team competition, she moped and giggled, smiled and cried, and chewed the scenery so viciously that she almost single-handedly destroyed her team and then brought them roaring back. And if all the drama wasn't enough, the image of her angrily tearing off her silver medal at the end of the night was enough...
Yesterday's score was 2-1. The game was not that close. Harvard outshot Northeastern 24-11, had almost twice as many corner kicks, and generally had the better of the play. In fact, Northeastern's only goal was more the result of a Crimson defensive miscue than any brilliant play by the Huskies...
...seemed like the rest of Europe was training harder while the Americans and Australians shared a beaming, brilliant spotlight after their news-making performances a year ago in the same pool at the Pan Pacific championships. As with each new wave of individuals, so too with a shift in swimming firepower between countries. In Sydney, some commentators were pointing to the rise of Europe as a swimming power; the Continent has long been a force in the pool. Four years ago, European nations won 11 gold and a total of 38 medals; this time Europe secured 14 gold, 36 medals...
...changes--in a few, but crucial scenes--don't spare Tori so much as Daddy. Gone from the pilot is Marcy's uncle--and along with him, a layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side...
...greatest change in the last 40 years is that we have come to live in a state of permanent and accelerating change. It's fascinating, overstimulating, and, by definition, continuously destructive - by turns incomparably brilliant and unbelievably stupid...