Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stojko's long program last week seemed more labored than usual. Skating to the sound track from the movie The Ghost and the Darkness, he seemed sapped and uninspired. The sport's most explosive jumper, he failed to awe the audience as he so often does. Although a master of the four-revolution jump (he was the first skater to land a quad-triple combination in competition), he couldn't muster the fortitude to show one off in Nagano. Moreover, he was sloppy in landing a triple loop, normally an easy move for him. Stojko had hoped to break...
...neither side really wants that trigger to be pulled. For the White House the move invokes the ghost of Nixon; for Starr the ensuing court battles, ending at the Supreme Court, would delay his investigation for months. Starr at least has the legalities of executive privilege on his side. "It's reserved for three things: military or diplomatic secrets, and matters of national security," says McAllister. "You wouldn't expect a court ruling that Monica Lewinsky's sex life falls into any of those areas...
...start at a point midway between those houses, and then drive north exactly three-quarters of a mile, you will encounter the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. Last week a work crew was remodeling the bungalow where the actress died...
...Your ghost inseparable from my shadow As long as your daughter's words can stir a candle. She could hardly tell us apart in the end. Your portrait, here, could be my son's portrait...
...catalog, having identified him as Gian Maria Cassotti, and his wife as Laura Assonica from Bergamo, makes the surprising point that when Lotto painted their likeness, she was dead, so that Cassotti is sitting down with her ghost. One of his hands points to a squirrel, curled up in sleep. Squirrels had an emblematic reputation for sleeping through the worst of storms, and indeed a high wind is bending the trees seen through the window behind. Cassotti, one sees on closer inspection, is red-eyed and weeping. He holds up a paper, the center of Lotto's composition, on which...