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...which a festering resentment sends a sick thrill through the arena. Why get mad? Because your rival got stupidly lucky. Because your rival took more effective drugs than you did. Because some friends of your rival clubbed you on the knee a month before the big skate. And maybe the real or imagined slight goads the grudging one to greatness. Revenge spurs nearly every movie plot; why shouldn't it juice the adrenaline that an athlete needs to excel...
...their meaning from their being, not the other way around. The Ray, 1725-26, is perhaps his single most imitated work in modern times. Cezanne, Matisse and Soutine all did homage to it in copies. Anyone who has seen the verso, as it were, of a dead ray, or skate, the commonest of sights in a Paris fishmarket, knows that the underside of this fish bears a grisly resemblance to the human face. But that sort of double meaning, with its built-in pathos, would probably have struck the artist as a bit cheap. Diderot, despite his great admiration...
Around age 60, when most men are easing into nine-hole golf, Gehry took up ice hockey. He did it because it was a game his grown sons liked, but also because he loves to skate. "I once asked my skating teacher, 'When am I gonna look cool?' He said, 'Never.'" Never? Somebody show that man a Gehry building. Frank Gehry is one of the coolest guys in the world. --With additional reporting by Daniel S. Levy/New York
...chefs has taken hold in American restaurants, and they're encouraging customers to try different combinations. "Riesling offers the most opportunities for synergistic food and wine pairings," says Rocco DiSpirito, 33, the chef at New York's Union Pacific. DiSpirito matches specific dishes with wine by the glass--like skate and Indian lime pickle puree with a Nigel Halbtrocken Riesling--to bring out the best in both. "You just can't do as much with oaky Chardonnays and the 14% alcohol Cabernets that people are accustomed to. Those wines don't leave a lot of room for food...
...became the youngest person to skate in the Olympic trials...