Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death," Michael Harlow would tell Bush. Michael, 30, and his wife Julie, together earn $20,000 to $25,000 a year, pay rent on a two-bedroom apartment because they cannot afford to buy a house, and worry what the future holds for their two-month-old daughter Grace...
Amid all the gaudy handkerchief hems and epaulets, Nancy Kerrigan's simple, lemon-yellow costume for the original program stood out as the kind of thing Grace Kelly might have worn if she'd been a figure skater...
...moved to the N.H.L. and players from North America immigrated to the European leagues, styles began to blend. The international game, played on a rink that is as much as 30 ft. wider than an N.H.L. rink, rewards players who skate and pass well. Enter the Swedes, who are grace epitomized. But as Team Sweden swept effortlessly to early victories, they displayed newfound passion for knocking their opponents into the boards. Swedish coach Conny Evensson admitted that his N.H.L.-blooded veterans actually enjoy "body contact," but he quickly asserted that as skaters, "they are good to look...
...contrast, the pairs' competition was a skate-away as the two top couples performing under the Unified Team banner demonstrated what truly unified skating is all about. Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev captured the gold medal, flowing from one move to the next with such grace and precision that even two technical errors on her part did not detract from their artistry. It was the eighth consecutive win by a Soviet-trained pair. Now that state-sponsored training has undergone a meltdown in their homeland, there is a question whether this latest pampered pair will be the last...
...choice but to live for, and ultimately through, her daughter. Dottie has no choice but to live for herself and hope her happiness will buoy the kids along. Stella's saving gracelessness was lack of awareness; she never realized what a ridiculous figure she cut. Dottie's saving grace is full ironic awareness of the chance she is taking. As she rises from cosmetics-counter tummler to the Carson show to Las Vegas, she works this gag into her act: "If you give kids a choice -- your mother in the next room on the verge of suicide versus your mother...