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...mountain in pursuit of speed, come to the ice like a soldier in sequins; to defy the laws of physics and nature, bury the effort under the grace. That's what makes it fun to watch and useful as well. Games have always been a handy mirror for every challenge we face, every test we take. But we may be especially grateful for the chance to stop and watch this spectacle on ice and snow. The last time we were transfixed together, it was in horror. In the next two weeks, some image will grab us once again, if much...
...mountain in pursuit of speed, come to the ice like a soldier in sequins; to defy the laws of physics and nature, bury the effort under the grace. That's what makes it fun to watch and useful as well. Games have always been a handy mirror for every challenge we face, every test we take. But we may be especially grateful for the chance to stop and watch this spectacle on ice and snow. The last time we were transfixed together, it was in horror. In the next two weeks, some image will grab us once again, if much...
...world records, but is he or she fit to enter Mormon heaven, or even serve as a model for classical sculpture? In many cases, no. He's built like a Greek god, goes the old saying, reminding us that the spirit and the physique have long been seen as mirroring each other. That mirror is cracked now. Too many modern Olympians are built less like gods than monsters - or monster trucks. And a few of them behave like monsters, too. Superhuman or sub? One sometimes wonders. If the Olympic Movement is a religion - and in its rhetoric it often resembles...
...place where propriety and restraint appear obsolete and where shocking alternatives challenge and sometimes consume its inhabitants. Brecht’s audience is then charged with surviving and somehow evaluating an eerie parallel universe and recognizing that a young poet’s struggles with his humanity is a mirror of their own torturous reality...
While Craig admits that the cast of The Good Men may not exactly mirror the actual players in the heresy of Montaillou, this fact does not make them any less real in the world of the novel. Craig’s precise character development allows an intimate look at the psychology of each person. We see the village priest struggle to reconcile his vocation with his lustful desires, complicated by his secret sympathy for the Good Men. We watch as a yearning for the priest grows in both Lizier and her mother, and see the resulting resentment. We witness...