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...September, you can't get them open to save your life. Then, when a massive exertion of brute force (on the part of the superintendent's assistant) finally releases them, all of a sudden November transforms temperatures into the teens, and there's no one to help you close them...
Hence, the familiar boathouse idiom that "ergs don't float," emphasizing that brute power on the rowing machine does not necessarily translate into wins in he water. Butt often preaches the "nine on one" approach to racing. The crew and coxswain must function as one unified force, and view the opponent as nine independent rowers, any one of whom is vulnerable to "cracking" or having lapses in concentration...
Albright has long believed that the only things Milosevic understands are blunt words and brute force. She's been contemptuous of the Serb strongman ever since her first visit as Secretary of State to Belgrade in 1997, when he patronizingly told her she was a neophyte in Balkan politics. Albright, who spent three years in Belgrade as the daughter of a Czech ambassador, shot back, "Don't tell me I'm uninformed. I've lived here...
JESSE'S WORLD Anyone who feared that former wrestler Jesse Ventura (with his ice-cream alter ego, left) would be an insensitive brute can be reassured that in his early days in office the Minnesota Governor has practiced politics with a very, very personal touch. Some highlights...
...football's old reputation lingers: it runs on steroids and brute force; its model is militaristic (with a vocabulary of "aerial attack," "offense" and "defense"), is aggressively over-male ("penetration") and seems somehow stupider than baseball because its energy is raw and violent...