Word: gracefulness
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...appreciated your interview with activist Ralph Nader [10 QUESTIONS, Aug. 5]. Nader's powerful intelligence, grace and wit never cease to impress the open mind. His insights into the serious imbalances and blind spots of the American corporate structure are penetrating, yet he is surprisingly optimistic and even humorous at times. We desperately need leaders like Nader--truly in touch with the fundamental realities that are shaping our lives and our world--and courageous enough to speak up strongly. SCOTT HESS Petaluma, Calif...
...farm sprawls across 50 sq. mi. of Oregon and Washington. When the last of its 460 turbines are installed, this postmodern power plant will offer clean electricity to 70,000 homes and businesses. Every month hundreds of tourists come to gawk at its fiber-glass blades, twirling with balletic grace atop 160-ft. poles. "People are in awe of wind power," says Anne Walsh, community-relations manager of the Stateline Energy Center...
...Surfing is a perfect girl's sport, says Isabelle (Izzy) Tihanyi, a competitive surfer and founder of the all-girls Surf Diva school in La Jolla, Calif. "Women have natural grace and agility. Surfing is not about power. It's about dancing well with the waves." So where can would-be Kelly Slaters go to master their boarding skills...
...bracelet last week. The next day she filed for divorce from dancer Cris Judd (the two separated months ago). An early romantic harbinger was an affectionate ad Affleck took out in The Hollywood Reporter congratulating her on a ShoWest award. He praised her "astonishing talent, real poise and true grace" and concluded, "I only wish I were lucky enough to be in all your movies." And they call P. Diddy a player...
...presence of prostitution in St. Petersburg was a familiar concept to me when I first arrived here to study Russian for the summer. The St. Petersburg prostitutes grace the pages of many Russian writers’ greatest works. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol wrote about an enticingly innocent prostitute that patrolled Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare. Dostoevsky presented his own romantic version of the St. Petersburg prostitute in Sonya Semyonovna, the teenage prostitute who saves the soul of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. More recently, I remember reading a statistic in high school that...