Word: mastering
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There's a more subtle game being played out here -- an endgame, in fact, between Starr and the White House. Someone did leak information to the press about prosecutors Bruce Udolf and Mike Emmick's previous records of riding roughshod over defendants' rights. Blumenthal, a master of White House spin, is a plausible suspect. But by bringing his accusation out into the open, Starr risks losing even more public sympathy and congressional support...
...sense. I ask him how much sense football makes. The biatholon at least arises from the context of hunting during icy conditions. And many of the Winter Olympic events, while not as flashy as some of the sports Americans are accustomed to, are very technical and difficult to master. How many of us could negotiate a luge course without getting killed...
...convict takes an expedient job as a footman at the house next door, the better to spot Phipps when he returns. Very quickly--Carey mimes perfectly the Victorian novelist's skill at making the implausible seem inevitable--Maggs comes to the attention of one of his master's dinner guests, the rising young author Tobias Oates. When Maggs, serving the wine, collapses from the pain of a tic douloureux in his cheek, Oates volunteers to relieve the servant's anguish by mesmerizing, i.e., hypnotizing, him. Maggs, a man desperate to keep secrets, is at the mercy of Oates...
With the world's current crop of elite male skaters all master technicians and wizardly athletes, the competition at the Nagano Olympics first appeared as though it would amount to a contest of aesthetics: the classical artistry of Russia's ballet-trained Ilia Kulik, a first-time Olympian, pitted against the don't-fence-me-in aggressiveness of Canadian Elvis Stojko, a black belt in karate and three-time world champion. Both men performed well and cleanly during Thursday's short program (the 2-min. 40-sec. execution of eight required elements), but Kulik led the event, suggesting a judicial...
Stojko's long program last week seemed more labored than usual. Skating to the sound track from the movie The Ghost and the Darkness, he seemed sapped and uninspired. The sport's most explosive jumper, he failed to awe the audience as he so often does. Although a master of the four-revolution jump (he was the first skater to land a quad-triple combination in competition), he couldn't muster the fortitude to show one off in Nagano. Moreover, he was sloppy in landing a triple loop, normally an easy move for him. Stojko had hoped to break...