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Fluid, elegant body movements are a hallmark of his style. Moreover, he is a master at manipulating the politics of figure skating. When judges attended practice sessions in Innsbruck, Fassi ordered his skaters to work on their best moves: he told Hamill, for example, to trace her strongest figures near the judges and her weakest on the far side of the rink. It also does not hurt that Fassi coaches skaters from so many nations. In competition, judges from those countries sometimes give his pupils the benefit of the doubt: in Hamill's short program, the Italian judge gave...
...squad once again displayed the impressive depth and grab bag of strokes that has been the hallmark of Barnaby's six previous national-championship teams...
...until then for investors to figure out the myriad new strategies available-such as "straddles," "strips" and "straps"-that involve buying or selling puts and calls on the same stock. As Joseph W. Sullivan, the C.B.O.E.'s 37-year-old president puts it: "Like the old thing about Hallmark cards-whatever you want to say about stocks, there's a way to say it with options...
Concealed virtuosity is a Feld hallmark. To the ordinary eye, double turns tucked into simple curves of movement spring up casually from the current of music. Girls rarely hurtle through the air, rather they float by like Chagall figures. Then, in a sudden mid-air reverse, they switch directions altogether...
...very funny and wildly macabre; the other half-Maude--is maudlin and soppily sentimental. Harold is a nineteen-year-old morto-phile who gets his mother's attention by faking suicide, and Maude is an octogenarian whose "love of life" is on the level of Rod McKuen and Hallmark greeting cards. --Paul K. Rowe...