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Powell is caught up in the brave new whirl of sports science. Fast disappearing are the days when an elite athlete was simply the product of hard work, a gruff coach and a little luck. Today science has become an indispensable part of the formula for more and more world-class competitors, who find that the margin between gold and silver is often a centimeter or a hundredth of a second. Helping mold athletes today is a growing army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With...
...feeling of something ecstatic, like religion -- not listening to a sermon, but when you're singing and emoting and entering into a happy waking dream. The world these characters inhabit has been declawed." That led to a deliberately overstated, cartoonish style. For crap-game organizer Nathan Detroit, who was gruff and menacing as played by Bob Hoskins in London, Zaks cast Nathan Lane, a patently harmless hyperkinetic who comes on as a blend of Jackie Gleason and Bugs Bunny...
...issues rather than on hospital soap opera. Early stories range from a boxer showing symptoms of Parkinson's disease to a couple who refuse surgery for their young son because of religious convictions. And John Mahoney, as a doctor who teaches a course in humanistic medicine, is the best gruff-but-kindly TV physician since Dr. Gillespie hung up his stethoscope...
However, Prine sounded much more natural on his own than when trying to blend his nasal, gruff voice with Timmins' quiet, smooth one. In his opening set, Prince's country style and simple, honest lyrics won the audience's tremendous enthusiasm. His "It's a Big Ol' Goofy World," which rambled with a ridiculous quality reminiscent of Bob Dylan, even provoked whoops and hollers of delight...
...recently referred to talk radio as "an addiction." And in many ways, it is. All over the country, gentle lullabies are being displaced by the voices of talk radio hosts, and people are being soothed to sleep by abrasive debate. More often than not, they're listening to the gruff voice of Larry King...