Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fitzgerald is a quarterback in the Giardi mold, looking to run as well as pass. But unlike Giardi, Fitzgerald isn't very good at it. In three games, Fitzgerald is 17-of-44 for 162 yards and four interceptions and averages 1.1 yards per rush...
...Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn't know himself. But the antique mold was a perfect receptacle for some of his plastic obsessions, such as the human back, and for the Arcadian vision he inherited from the past and shared with other avant-gardists like Stravinsky...
...exist. Called "Microsociety," these programs bear as much resemblance to the standard neighborhood school -- with its traditional textbooks, work sheets and lesson plans -- as fiber-optic communication does to sending smoke signals. At a time when reformers, corporate leaders and politicians are all heralding the need for "break the mold" schools, Microsociety puts the radical rhetoric to the test...
While the public relations effort to mold Hillary into a traditional my- heart-belongs-to-hubby First Lady means that campaign insiders are reluctant to publicly acknowledge her substantive role, her imprint on the staff shake-up seems clear. With Hillary as the principal guardian of the candidate's body and mind, it is telling that just before the convention she propelled the couple's longtime friend Susan Thomases -- a sometimes confrontational New York City lawyer -- into the powerful slot of head scheduler. In that role Thomases serves Hillary's agenda to make sure Clinton's tendency to please everyone...
...product of hard work, a gruff coach and a little luck. Today science has become an indispensable part of the formula for more and more world-class competitors, who find that the margin between gold and silver is often a centimeter or a hundredth of a second. Helping mold athletes today is a growing army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With some players already working seven hours a day, six days a week, "it is physically and socially irresponsible to increase the volume of training...