Word: nonstop
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Chinese officials are quick to deny that undue resources pour into competitive sports. But in a nation with only 60 swimming pools, there are 10 elite diving schools. Students are supervised virtually nonstop, cut off from families unless relatives happen to live nearby, forbidden to date until their 20s and expected to train so hard that most wind up unfit for work outside athletics. Some are left virtually illiterate in a land where, by Confucian tradition, intellectual pursuits are prized over physical ones. In exchange, athletes (and often their families) enjoy better jobs and housing. They wear imported athletic clothing...
...have a dream (or is it a nightmare?). The year is 1996, and the Democrats, weary of the nonstop sniping from their twin 800-lb. gorillas, finally give in and nominate their all-egoist ticket. It is Jackson-Cuomo or Cuomo-Jackson. Naturally, the two are unwilling and unable to decide which of them should be at the top of the ticket. They bicker constantly, each with his own polls proving that he deserves to be his party's standard bearer. They ignore the opposition and battle to the end, to Jan. 20, 1997, when they are spied jockeying...
...Festival -- an annual get-together for producers, broadcasters and other TV people from around the globe, held in the picturesque Canadian Rockies. Eight days of screening 130 programs, debating their merits and awarding prizes in 10 categories produced three chief surprises. First, after grueling 11-hour days of virtually nonstop TV viewing, it was still possible to retreat to the hotel room and turn on David Letterman without going bonkers. Second, despite the obvious differences in national and cultural background among the jurors (who came from Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Germany and Japan, as well as the U.S.), there...
...these predominantly bright, florid selections from Handel, Scarlatti, Bach and others. Yet the album, like its predecessors, seems an event built as much on personality and packaging as on musical impulses. And the limitations of its formula are exposed by the nature of most soprano-trumpet duets: the nonstop bravura finally becomes a bit wearisome (the Bach album with Perlman comes off better in this respect...
...SWEET OF MURTAUGH (DANNY GLOVer) to keep pulling unlighted cigarettes out of his partner's mouth. Since the cops' lives are a nonstop succession of explosions, fire fights and car chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added...