Word: gracing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Victorian melodrama, the emotional colors underlined by music as tinkly or percussive as in Beijing opera. In a further attempt to weight the scales in favor of the sensitive outcast, Baryshnikov's speeches are candidly written and delivered with touching directness. Most remarkable, however, are his agility and grace in evoking the lumbering, graceless creature. Skittering across the floor, or toppled over backward and trying to right himself, or dangling from the spider web of piping that represents a ceiling, Baryshnikov is completely believable as both misfortunate man and misunderstood beast...
Clark gained national attention -- including a TIME cover -- by bullying students and faculty into a state of moral grace and academic excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict...
...sport of grace anymore. It is a more active and demanding sport," Harvard's coach says...
...indeed, although seniors Morrissey, Liz Reynolds, Martha Berkman--the number-nine seed who went undefeated this year--and Louise Zonis will depart, a strong line of successors follows. Freshmen Brooke Bailey and Mary Greenhill, sophomore Daphne Onderdonk and junior Grace Sheffield will return to comprise that "strong nucleus" on the squash ladder...
...brief second, there is silence in the room. Memories of FloJo praying on the track, her performance in the Olympics, her grace and her character appear...