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...delightful things that tip the balance. Is this not so? The parent prays that it is so. I hear my daughter in the yard, laughing. She is on a swing, swinging so high that her head hits the leaves of the apple tree, and the weightless moment at the height of the backswing is what makes her laugh out loud. That moment when joy and terror meet. A religious moment. I want to go out and tell her to be careful, and I don't. Exuberance! Exuberance! The joy of life. For that, you need independence...
...then lose. That's what happened to Patterson's opponent, Russian Svetlana Khorkina. She has ruled women's gymnastics for the better part of a decade, but has never won the Olympic all-around gold. (Her 2000 campaign ran aground when the vault was accidentally set at the wrong height.) Now 25, she knew this was her last shot. The two women's styles could not have been more different - Khorkina, so ethereal she at times looked too frail for the demands of gymnastics; Patterson, throwing herself at the apparatuses as if they were no more than tree houses...
...disturbingly funny profundities of "Amy and Jordon" may not even be the best reason for reading it. Beyer's strip was the most visually inventive since the turn-of-the-century height of newspaper cartoonists like Winsor McCay and Lyonel Feininger. Drawing in a black and white style that could well be classified as Art Brut, it defies any preconceptions of what a comic strip should look like. Beyer stuffs his raw caricatures into the corners of zany layouts, no two of which are alike. And a good thing, too. It would be unreadable otherwise. Even smart strip collections like...
Bowman could see that Phelps was born to swim. Blessed with a sinewy, whiplike body, a long torso and large hands and feet, plus a 6ft. 7in. arm span that extends 3 in. beyond his height (the usual ratio is 1 to 1), Phelps has as close to an ideal swimming body as you can get. Like other top swimmers, he doesn't so much power through the water as slide along it, propelled by a vigorous dolphin kick that surges from his head to his toes in a high-amplitude wave...
...Diana ran through the vamp (?I know a bundle of humanity / She?s about so high / I?m nearly driven to insanity / When she passes by?), adding the appropriate gestures of a hand measuring the air, for height, and a clockwise motion to the head, for insanity. Then she launched into the chorus (?I?m young and healthy / And you?ve got charms / It would really be a sin / Not to have you in my arms?), plighting her troth, really pitching it, with a tenor?s full faux fervor. Allie took the second verse (?I?m young and healthy...