Word: rosset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is luck and there is fate. Marc Rosset of Switzerland was eliminated from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first round. Ranked 47th in the world, Rosset, 27, decided to stay on in New York for practice with the best players in the world. He and his coach canceled their plan to fly to Geneva--on Swissair 111. That was luck...
...sheer size of the stage and audience, which can tempt film stars, fearful of understatement, into almost operatic playing. That happened last week to Marisa Tomei, the street-corner ingenue of My Cousin Vinny, in a vaudeville-influenced staging of The Comedy of Errors. While Brazilian director Caca Rosset emphasizes the many shades of emotion within the text, Tomei, a gifted stage veteran, struck one note: screeching fury...
...morning and you see some of the best athletes in the world going for jogs or eating breakfast. It's indescribable!" A few days later, the No. 1 seed was knocked out of both doubles and singles, and his conqueror, the Swiss giant Marc Rosset, was looking pleasantly bewildered. "I like the Village so much," said the unseeded Rosset, who went on to win the gold, "maybe I'm going to buy a flat in the Village...