Word: contortionistic
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...bent over, blowing into her soprano sax pointed down to the ground, the other with her leg brought up to her chest. Ever so slowly, the leg lowered and rested on the full length of the saxophonist’s back, in a feat expected only from a contortionist...
...President because he is an accomplished political contortionist, and so far he's made all the moves expected of him?nothing more. He actively led a fresh internal Party campaign to study Jiang's doctrine of the Three Represents, thus preserving the legacy of the old guard and ensuring the continuity of Party authority. He has reiterated economic development targets and prosecuted the ongoing war against corruption, persuading the country's striving middle class that their needs are being addressed. He has also visited peasants who live in absolute poverty, helping to neutralize discontent among the neglected, disadvantaged, repressed...
...Tony Blair: a chance to shine on the world stage and remind voters at home, who have been crabbing about still-rotten hospitals and trains, of his decisiveness and capacity to lead. Now the task of standing shoulder to shoulder with George W. Bush risks turning Blair into a contortionist. As Bush marches with apparent enthusiasm toward a war with Iraq, the British public is grabbing Blair by the ankles and saying, "Slow down." A new MORI poll for TIME shows a sharp drop in public approval of Blair's handling of the response to Sept. 11, from...
...about jokes that he had put his manhood in blind trust to serve as Ronald Reagan's Vice President. The young Dan Quayle never convinced the country he had the gravitas to be Veep, let alone top man. But the cerebral, private, intensely competitive Al Gore has managed the contortionist's feat of projecting an almost perfect loyalty to his boss's re-election without diminishing himself. Clinton's normally understated political director, Doug Sosnik, gushes when the topic is Gore: "There's not one part of the country where Al Gore is not well received, not one group...
Daly is well aware of the pitfalls of his contortionist's swing. "I may have to change when I'm 35," he says, "if I still have a back." But for now, Daly believes that the rewards of being able to fly over hazards placed on fairways where mortal golfers risk falling into them, and then following up with shorter, more accurate irons, offset the wild shots...