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...skiing strengths. He started racing young. "It's a very elemental sport," Miller told TIME at a recent race stop in Kitzbühel, Austria. "You're using just gravity to get down the mountain and trying to cut down on friction and wind resistance and air. It's pretty pure...
Lady in Satin. Billie Holiday's voice, late in her career, sounded like pure heartbreak--and it was captured beautifully on this 1958 classic...
...cliche, of course, but the State of the Union address is notorious for being a committee-written document, a tedious laundry list interspersed with fulsome praise for the American spirit and God. But if the speech had some of that feel, it was also pure Bush, as clear an expression of the man he's become and the presidency he guides as anything I've heard in four years. His father tried to shirk the caricature that all he cared about was foreign policy. The son, who came to office, probably figuring he'd fix schools, cut taxes...
...avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced anything like it in terms of its destructive power. It is staggering in terms of how much lung tissue is destroyed." Nguyen Thanh Hung, one of the few to survive avian flu, says the disease is pure misery. "I felt like my head was about to explode. My heart was pounding like it would come out of my chest, and I couldn't control my muscles...
...There's something eternal in the basic narrative,' says John Neumeier, artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet ... 'A woman who's very pure and trusting and in the end very strong, and a man who's made a great mistake' ... It's a simple enough story: Giselle, a frail young peasant girl, [goes mad and] dies after she finds out that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same...