Word: pursuits
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Sharp’s figuring of professional ballet as a ruthless taskmaster demanding bodily sacrifice in the pursuit of an artistic ideal is not a new insight...
This punchy, almost breathless cadence is seductively accessible to the balletomane and casual observer alike. Sharp adroitly collapses the distance between performer and spectator, suggesting that we can all relate to the pas de deux’s pursuit of perfect synchrony between individuals...
...Marinaro needed 918 career carries to amass the 4,715 yards that stood as the league standard until Saturday, while Dawson set the new mark on the 920th carry of his career. Amid the widespread questioning of the legitimacy of Dawson’s four-year pursuit of the record in contrast with Marinaro, who played only three years, the symmetry of the two players’ careers helps quell any ideas of an asterisk next to Dawson’s newly written name in the Ivy League’s record book...
...being our first win, that maybe [Richter] was the guy we should go with on Friday.” Tobe, in his return to action, played admirably, stopping 18 shots and surrendering just one Raider goal. Known in the past for sometimes straying too far from the crease in pursuit of loose pucks, Tobe managed to stay planted firmly between the pipes. “He kicked a lot of rebounds out, played the puck well, and didn’t play too aggressive, which has gotten him in trouble in the past,” captain Dylan Reese said...
...movies. But Casino Royale succeeds by taking a modern form of physical activity--parkour, the urban steeplechase in which participants run up stairwells, jump across roofs and slip through transoms that was showcased to exhilarating effect in the French film District B13--and applying it to Bond's pursuit of a bad guy (parkour star Sbastien Foucan) on the high beams of a construction project. Marvelous...