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...best ballerina is still Altynai Asylmuratova, 34. In personal beauty and musicality, she is exquisitely refined, but she dances with a boldness that is thrilling. From the moment she leaps onstage, there is no question that this supernatural bird will conquer the evil sorcerer. No mannerisms, no attempt to extract fire out of ice. Many ballerinas have a grand attack. Asylmuratova has magic...
...fiction (even today, the Star Trek books and the German Perry Rodan series, about a band of heroic warriors who take over the solar system, dominate his home bookcase) and, says science teacher William Eisenbeiser, devised elaborate schemes to build everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular, the article stated that the federal space agency had awarded...
Every movie, it now seems, is a sequel of every other movie. Writers pick over the carcasses of hit films and try to extract the golden elements for their own projects. Why, it's Die Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding...
...executives that "little gray-haired old ladies," as one case officer put it, were best suited to perform the painstaking work of catching a mole. Computers might help, the prevailing wisdom went, but only the women had the patience and the skills to go through mountains of files and extract clues...
...statement. He had participated in a number of debriefings on the other side of the table, and he would handle this one in a professional manner, as he would have done if he were still in his former role. The debriefers went along with that. The goal was to extract as much information as possible from him; if that meant treating him like a fellow professional--which is what he badly seemed to want--then they would...