Word: gracefulness
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SPEED OF MIGHT In a TIME photo portfolio, the power and grace of Olympic competition comes shining through...
...which Japan had hoped to win medals. True, the major dailies did print a special edition when the men's gymnastics team won gold, but the triumph was treated not so much as a watershed victory as a rightful return to the top tier. After all, before tumbling from grace in the 1980s, Japan won the men's team-gymnastics gold at five consecutive Olympics, the last at the 1976 Montr?al Games. In swimming, for that matter, the country bagged 12 medals way back in 1932, five of them gold. "We're just getting back to where we were before...
...guts beat grace. Thursday night at Athens' Olympic Indoor Hall, Carly Patterson bounced back from a klutzy performance in the team event and pranced, pirouetted and double-piked her way to gold in gymnastics' marquee event, the women's individual all-around competition. The 16-year-old pocket dynamo from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, became the first American woman to claim the medal since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. "You dream about this your whole life," she marveled afterwards. "Then you win the gold medal." Or you dream about it your whole life, then lose. That's what happened to Patterson...
...Cartier-Bresson, HCB, Hank Carter or just Henri--always said with pride and affection--was the master in whose shadow documentary photography will always exist. Before his death last week at the age of 95, he spent his life reconciling opposites, not laboriously but in an instant, with the grace of an athlete, on the run. Through his eyes we see the universal in the specific, large issues in small things, mystery in the obvious, poetry in the mundane. We see infinity in the blink...
...must visit the independent producers, makers of the so-called grower champagnes. Such vignerons carry on a love affair with their land, often treating the soil and environment with reverential respect. It shows in their complex wines. If you call for an appointment, they will receive you with grace. Some of those I visited and adored were Camille Saves in Bouzy, Jacquesson in Dizy, Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay...