Word: grace
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...group formed through a Making the Band - style reality show in 2006. A Japanese-language mini-album (With U) enjoyed some success in 2008. Big Bang now hope their debut full-length Japanese-language release - having entered Japan's charts at No. 3 - will deliver the coup de grace. The good looks of the creators certainly won't harm the disc's chances. (See the Asia's best bands...
Teams do have good reason to be cautious. Players from the pro leagues on down to high schools have contracted the virus. And to be fair, the clean-mitts camp has pushed for alternative gestures of good grace like fist-bumping or nodding at foes while saying, "Nice game." (See how not to get the H1N1...
...necklines and waistlines but not hemlines, which climbed upward until a skirt became little more than a strap. Professional athletes flaunted their immodesty, egos on steroids bashing at the plate and dancing in the end zones; where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, whose name was synonymous with greatness and grace? Developers etched their names into their towers in letters 6 ft. high; financiers built cottages the size of cathedrals. Politicians talked louder but did less, or declared Missions Accomplished that had barely begun. (See sports pictures taken by Walter Iooss...
Cities on both sides of this line are full of modern skyscrapers and designer retailers from the West, but the statues that grace their parks and squares make it clear which side of the line one is on. In Budapest, Lenin can only be found in the kitschy Statue Park outside the city, but he still stands in the center of Simferopol, the capital of the Autonomous Region of Crimea in Ukraine, and his name graces buildings and even the metro system in Moscow...
Shee tries a hands-free cartwheel, primarily to get his blood flowing again and secondarily to entertain his fellow dancers, whose movements maintain a hint of grace even as they laugh and make fun of their own mistakes...