Word: gracefulness
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This type of grace, shown both in victory and defeat, makes me sad to see the Yankee dynasty end. In contrast to many of today’s dysfunctional clubhouses where millionaire athletes often set bad examples, the Yankees are the blueprint for a classy champion...
...monoliths tried to make up in size what they lacked in grace, splendor or architectural intelligence; they were to the Empire State Building what the 1976 ?King Kong? remake (in which the beast falls from the top of one or both towers) was to the 1933 original (which concludes you-know-where). As Nicholas Von Hoffman wrote of the Twin Towers in last week?s New York Observer, ?They were a couple of ugly and ill-proportioned buildings of egotistical dimensions and heartlessness. They had nothing noteworthy about them but gross altitude.? I always thought of them as two stacks...
...National Team. Already a prolific goal-scorer with Harvard thanks to her hard blue-line slapshot, she’s emerged as one of the United State’s top offensive-minded defenseman. She now has the skating ability to finish an odd-man rush with the grace of her forward counterparts...
...baked hills of Berkeley, you know you're part of the Establishment when you're protesting it. The spirit of speaking out and sitting in is as sacred as the bygone football heroes whose statues grace the University of California campus. Where else could you find the urgent demand WALK OUT ON THE WAR appearing in large chalk letters on the sidewalk, on cue, the morning after air strikes began? Where else would the city's fire trucks remove their American flags for fear of becoming targets for protesters? And where else would the city council mull over a resolution...
...dressed in a fitted but flowing white gown—resembles a Greek goddess. Both Huene and Horst placed Greek sculptures in the background of their work and even blew up large reproductions of them to serve as backdrops for their photographs. They wanted to bring the grace and beauty of classicism into the world of twentieth century fashion...