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...always prided myself on being very hard-working, and that’s definitely something that comes in very handy in rowing,” Wintner said. “Being a successful rower consists of mastering one motion by doing it thousands of times a day, trying to perfect it, and the other part of it is trying to improve your fitness. What in other sports is constituted as punishment—in rowing, it’s practice.”After 12 years playing competitive hockey in Canada, the world’s ice hockey mecca, it?...
...didn't have to be a talent scout to recognize that Kerr was the perfect package of a quality actress. Her large blue eyes could glare in disapproval or moisten dewily in the surrender to love. Her mouth expressed primness or sensuality, as needed; and in many films it relaxed into the self-depreciating smile of a woman who can't believe people when they say she's gorgeous - someone for whom every conquest is a new surprise. Whether her film characters had an unapproachable (and thus enticing) air or bore the unspoiled stamp of the dream girl next door...
...remember movie actors of the 50s as an assembly of damaged brutes (starting with Brando) and buxom babes (mainly Monroe). But that was just part of the cosmology. They had ladies then, actresses who, in their fine features and perfect poise, their manner and manners, suggested that the old aristocracy was not ready to be overthrown. They could play women of nobility or ordinary girls with a sense of breeding. Often they came to Hollywood from English theater and films, but to many American viewers they seemed visitors from a higher realm. Their names still say "class": Vivien Leigh, Wendy...
...this wouldn't last a month. And look," he said, pointing to the unlikely gathering of sheiks at the al Rashid Thursday. "All I know is that the more this has taken root, the more bad guys we've been able to catch. It doesn't have to be perfect to be worth doing...
...photography book about U.S. history produced by Time is a perfect combination: photography is the most democratic of art forms, and Time has always been about explaining America to ourselves. "I contain multitudes," Walt Whitman boasted, and so does this book: a multitude of ideas, people, places, disasters and dreams. "The United States," Whitman wrote, "is essentially the greatest poem." We just combined that poetry with pictures...