Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass. "I love it when I'm double-teamed." Familiar with triple-teams, Olajuwon said, "Bird works out everything in his mind beforehand, but I can't do anything except react to the situation. I never practice my moves because, when the time comes to do them, there isn't time to think of them. They just come." So there are at least two styles of genius...
Alas, it is true. James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist and stern moralist. In fact, much of the joy of reading him comes from the extravagant spectacle of a first-rate mind wasting itself on baseball. Is baseball 75% pitching? No, it isn't, and James will show in a page or so that the proposition makes no more sense than saying "Philosophy is 75% God." Are the good teams the ones that bear down in the crucial final innings? No. The Cardinals and Blue Jays would still have won their divisions last year...
...registers its palm- fringed beaches, magical dances and golden native beauties out of Gauguin and then remarks that all these delights are being corrupted by a camera- toting crush of alien surfers, satyrs and souvenir hunters. The single most changeless feature of Bali, indeed, is this litany of laments. " 'Isn't Bali spoiled,' is invariably the question that greets the returned traveler," wrote Miguel Covarrubias. That was in 1937. "This nation of artists is faced with the Western invasion, and I cannot stand idly by and watch their destruction," wrote Andre Roosevelt, introducing a book titled--what else?--The Last...
...Cruz's determination to resist assimilation at Harvard has not been easy. "Remy is his own person. He isn't like other students who have assimilated into the cultural mainstream. He held back and that has caused personal difficulties," explains Coles...
...environment creates a real crazy attitude in demanding people to be thin and exercise a lot, be successful and perfect, all as a package deal. There's also the suggestion that we can still eat what we want and [maintain this image]. There's no woman who isn't affected [in some way by this pressure]," says Honnet...