Word: madness
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...skiers to charge gates directly and club them aside with armored forearms). Zurbriggen is competitive in the discipline but has not won a World Cup slalom since 1986. His real strength is in the faster, wilder races. Last season he took five World Cup downhills. The race is a mad descent of at least 800 meters, with few control gates, at speeds that can reach 80 or 85 m.p.h. The giant slalom, or GS, bridges downhill and slalom extremes in a beautiful, treacherous dance of large-radius turns. The super-G has not quite taken on its own character...
Rather was "pretty chagrined" immediately after the interview, according to one associate, but he quickly gathered his spirits and strongly defended his performance. "I never felt the interview was out of control," he told TIME. "I couldn't get answers, but I did not get mad." Aides who briefed Rather before the interview say the anchor was fully prepared for a heated exchange. "We knew Bush would attack, and we knew he wasn't going to answer the questions," says Producer Martin Koughan. "The trick was, How does Dan keep control of the line of questioning? Better rude than cowed...
While it may not be possible to keep Thompson (nicknamed "The Mad Bomber") from racking up points, Roby expects the Harvard zone defense--which has worked very well in the last several games--to keep the Bruin sharpshooter from finding open shots...
...Crimson was mad Monday. And sad. Bowed heads. Muffled voices. Vague mumbles of suicide...
...past is not weak or dreamy but sexy and compelling. In the end, the enslaved queen rules over the city, and her son has been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson thrust the audience into a world askew, and the force that has caused the upheaval -- the dizzying, delirious and dangerous power of passion -- has not much changed from the Greek world...