Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veteran Africa hands in TIME's Nairobi bureau -- operations central for our correspondents in Somalia. Not only did the army of print and video journalists descending on Mogadishu fill every available hotel room and airplane seat, but they also emptied neighboring capitals of supplies. While our resourceful office manager, Grace Okeyo, scoured Nairobi for bottled water and U.S. currency (a commodity in increasingly short supply), Nairobi reporter Clive Mutiso pulled every string he knew to get TIME space on planes denied to other journalists. When former Nairobi bureau chief James Wilde flew in from Istanbul, Mutiso persuaded a charter pilot...
...BASEBALL STILL THE NATIONAL PASTIME? SURE, IF the sport is meant to reflect the greed, rancor, farce and tragedy that can be found -- along with the athletic grace and thrill of competition -- in real life...
...grace and thrills come on the field between April and October. All the other stuff was on display at the owners' winter meetings in Louisville, Kentucky, where baseball's barons went on a daft pre-Christmas shopping spree for talent -- including $43 million for six years of outfielder Barry Bonds' services -- while moaning they were near bankruptcy...
...movie's second saving grace is Winger. We even buy the fact that she's cast as the fleet-footed woman-girl who's constantly searching for an emotional anchor. She always manages to slip out of the committed relationships that might do her some good. Ironically, she finds solace in the least stable and trustworthy elements around her--namely Preacher Martin. Winger provides the film with a breath of fresh air, portraying the frustrated sojourner of myth who finally finds her home among the midst of lime butterflies...
...that I did. Not entirely. Okay, so I skied off the side of the trail a few times, but I never hit a tree. I fell down a few times, but everybody does. I kept my knees bent. I leaned into my turns. More mechanical than graceful, I didn't slice through the snow with the grace of Roger Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me." But I didn't completely suck...