Word: gracefulness
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...suffering from kleptomania also have strong desires for immoral acts; their situation is monstrously unfair, but that doesn't make theft morally acceptable. Using biology as an excuse promotes an image of homosexuals as sick, diseased unfortunates, as lepers to be ministered unto and "cured" through therapy and divine grace. Many gays find these portrayals highly insulting, but they will not go away so long as biology is the only defense...
...movements. "As I ran up to bowl," recalled England's Jim Laker, "Bradman seemed to know where the ball was going to pitch, what stroke he was going to play and how many runs he was going to score." He wasn't a beautiful batsman?he lacked the grace of Victor Trumper, Ted Dexter or Mark Waugh?but as his late teammate Jack Fingleton wrote: "He was such a genius that he could well have indulged himself in the artistic flourishes of batting, but he was too much of a realist to permit himself to do this. Every spectator...
...hard, since Jerry Seinfeld poured his last bowl of cereal. As recently as 1996-97, the year-end Nielsen ratings listed seven sitcoms in the top 10. Today there are two: Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond, which are seven and five years old, respectively. New comedy hits--Will & Grace, Malcolm in the Middle--have been rare. Last fall's one debatable success, CBS's Yes, Dear, was scheduled between established hits. Familiar names (Michael Richards, John Goodman) landed in familiar situations and met familiar ends. Says ABC president Stu Bloomberg: "It's not that all sitcoms are crappy, but after...
...Among the many websites that serve the ballroom community, www.dancescape.TV is visited daily by tens of thousands of fans and participants. How come? There's a lot to recommend ballroom, of course--whatever age a person is. It provides good cardiovascular exercise and helps develop muscle tone, grace, poise and balance. It's affordable and can be learned in a relatively short time. But its popularity among the young is particularly welcomed by parents who, with some reason, fret about the safety of their children in the harsh and sometimes violent world in which so many grow up today. "What...
Indeed, we have all learned something by watching him play with grace and levity, by watching him stick out his tongue in mock disbelief and give a thumbs-up to his opponent for hitting a nice drop shot. We have all realized that winning is important, but that playing the game and having fun are paramount...