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...Nair claims to be mellowing. "I find I am less restless now," she says. For two years, she has started each day on set with a yoga session. But for true calm, it has to be the garden. "To think I would ever get excited about watching something grow," she says. "It teaches you about rhythm and patience." Despite such claims, she still likes to introduce herself with the line "I'm Mira Nair. Rhymes with fire." And her schedule for 2005 suggests she's far from ready to cool down. She's working on adaptations of The Impressionist...
...rare artistic license in what is often a timidly conventional profession. "When I have passion for something," says Nair, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person." Indeed, Mamdani explains Nair's yoga and gardening not as gentle forms of distraction but as a means of reinforcing her calm confidence and enabling her to be a willful visionary amid "the corrupting influence of the marketplace, particularly when [she is] successful...
...popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum also notes, Wodehouse was every inch the Edwardian: calm in a crisis, aloof but generous (he supported an old school chum for years), quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics). Many of those qualities can be traced to Wodehouse's Woosterish upbringing. A descendant of Norfolk...
...Atlanta, then failed to qualify for Sydney and quit the sport. But early retirement was not an ending the "sportaholic" could stomach, even if his stoic demeanor hid it, says his longtime girlfriend, Michal Peleg. "He doesn't like to lose. At anything. You know the saying ?the calm before the storm'? That's him - and there is a storm." It stirred in 2002, when Fridman came back to the sport and won the world championship. But rumors of an arm injury helped dampen Olympic expectations, except...
...owner of a hemp shop who spends the first few afternoons in camp lying motionless in his sleeping bag. The Germans have never been to Tasmania before; most of us have never been in a raft before. There's some uncertain laughter about our fitness levels. We decide to calm our nerves with egg-and-bacon rolls at the last shop on our five-hour drive west through hop fields and farming towns. By the time we push our rafts cautiously into the Collingwood River a few hours later, any fantasy of an easy ride is long gone. A lurid...