Word: gracefully
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There is something magical about watching people learn how to box. From the punching, the fancy footwork, the exercises and the rope-jumping, I learned discipline, intensity and grace. From watching other boxers, men and women, punch, do fancy footwork, exercise and jump rope better than I can, I learned humility. From watching the accomplished boxers don headgears, put on jock straps over their shorts and spar, I set goals. And from seeing Tommy do crazy exercises (he can rock back and forth on his stomach! His stomach!) and watching him run all over the MAC for three hours screaming...
None of the "conspirators" in that peaceful second putsch could bring themselves to deliver the final political coup de grace. Instead the Soviet President was left to go through the motions of office while Yeltsin methodically chipped away at his powers, placing the entire territory of the Kremlin under Russian control, and pro-Yeltsin television commentators made daily calls for Gorbachev to step down...
...realm of the miraculous sometimes lies just across the border from the fanatical or the tacky. Miracles may turn into roadside tourist traps, Fellini scenes. A revelation may go commercial and look like a snake farm beside the highway in North Florida. The transcendent moment falls from grace and spoils on the ground like rotten fruit. So the territory of the miraculous must be approached carefully, by stages, passing from the gaudiest, shabbiest outer display toward what may, occasionally, turn out to be a deeper truth...
...AMAZING GRACE (PBS, Dec. 20, 9 p.m. on most stations). A welcome rerun of Bill Moyers' glorious documentary on the meaning and legacy of one of the most popular hymns in the English language. Jessye Norman, Judy Collins and the Boys Choir of Harlem are among the singers...
...Mabel (soprano Jenny Giering) responds favorably and, in a breath-taking display of polished vocal range, she flirts with Frederic by breaking into song every time he tries to kiss her. Christine van Kipnis' choreography displays the coquettish maidens' spying on Mabel and Frederic's romantic conversation with droll grace...