Word: singularizing
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...lock for Jansen this time. You could take it to the bank. Except by now everyone knew that speed skaters can and do go down. That has been Dan's singular contribution to the common body of knowledge about his discipline. On Monday, 300 m into the race of his life, it began to happen again. Out went Jansen's hand to steady himself, the friction of it scraping along the ice probably enough to cause the thirty-five hundreths of a second's difference between gold and Jansen's eighth-place finish. "You lose so much momentum...
Other than providing an opportunity for a reprise, no matter how contrived, of Camelot, the Clinton victory reinforced the singular definition of youth as that place where everything is possible. Age (and Bush's defeat) were represented as that place where one is constrained by limitations...
...successes obscured his failures and his death shortly before Gettysburg left him an unblemished hero and martyr for the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee, the commander and gentleman who is generally considered one of history's greatest generals, gradually surpassed Jackson as the premier hero of the Old South. "The singular figure in the army who stands in history's shadows," Wert explains, "is Longstreet." His conservatism in battle and his rightful blaming of Lee for Gettysburg left him an uninspiring if not undesirable memory for the former Confederacy...
...Gabriel there's nothing to lose but fustian notions of who does what in music. "Interactive rock challenges the old roles of artist and audience," he says. "No longer do you have to supply a linear form with a beginning and an end and a singular journey through it. Instead you create an environment, a kind of forest, where people have the option to follow your path through it, or they can plan their own route -- they can see the world you provided as a collage kit. All the barriers that separated education from entertainment and communication are being eroded...
...team sport, but Michael Jordan often played it as if he were all alone. Call it genius or call it selfishness -- the two traits often overlap -- but Jordan sometimes seemed to resent the fact that he had four teammates on the floor with him. His talent was so singular that he was often competing only against himself, against the memory of his last impossible dunk, his last acrobatic steal, his last whizzing cross-court assist. And in the end, that kind of competition bored...