Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, as I gear up for my commute every Tuesday through Friday, waiting for the 9:22 train to Penn Station, the oppressive heat brings me back to those midwinter convictions, and I often wonder how someone as stubborn as myself could have undergone such a change of heart...
...touch slower than her 17-year-old self, it's clear that she has not lost her extraordinary competitive toughness. She endorses Cadillac cars (as well as Speedo swim gear, Ray Ban sunglasses, PowerBars and Xerox), and in one ridiculous TV commercial, a deep-voiced announcer growls--as kettle drums roll, engines rumble and the screen flashes footage of Janet surging through the water--"She believes in controlled aggression!" Not really. What she really believes in is greasy-spoon breakfasts. But in mid-December, not quite three months before the U.S. team-selection trials, she tore ligaments in her left...
Still, it is Bela whom Moceanu credits with kicking her into high gear. Not long after his return to elite gymnastics in late '93, Moceanu won the junior national title and began her meteoric ascent through the senior ranks. "His presence counts a whole lot," Moceanu says. She insists that Bela returned a changed man. No more yelling or name calling. "But he can be strict and tough," she says. "It works better with...
LAWRENCE LERITZ, 43; NEW YORK CITY; actor Leritz, in conjunction with Hollywood Supports, has led the "Day of Compassion" project, winning commitments from local, cable and network producers to gear one day's programming toward aids-related topics. On June 21, more than 100 talk shows, daytime dramas and news programs will contain segments or story lines, like the aids charity ball on General Hospital, to promote hiv awareness. Says Leritz: "This is a very upbeat message focused on people living with AIDS...
...with its exquisitely suggested peony design. But there, on the right, Cezanne has another white cloth, its folds sharper and more geometrical, its surface unfinished, so that you see glimpses of table through it--and the balance is suddenly perfect, despite but actually because of this shift of gear. Then there is the play between mass and instability--how the fruit in the dishes is so grandly solid, while the plates themselves tilt just enough to convey an underlying peril. The relationships in a still life were as infinite to Cezanne as those in a landscape: "These glasses, these plates...