Word: skillful
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Some saltwater romantics complain that all the emphasis on technology has diminished the role of good old-fashioned seamanship. To which America 3's skipper Koch replies, "Sailing skill is fine, but you can't do something with a boat that won't do it." In the world of America's Cup racing, it seems, you get what...
...stories that underlie the conglomerations of things in his still lifes, which do indeed provide something to interpret. But was this what Hartley meant? In fact, no. He saw what is plainly true -- that in Harnett there is little imaginative dimension beyond the winsome, rebus-like narrative and the skill...
There are several sports in which the price of a ticket buys a knot in the stomach: car racing, bull-fighting, high-diving. No one wants it to happen, but everyone knows it might. And that is why we watch. You admire the skill and the grace, but you can't avoid the fact that you are paying to watch people risk their lives. He makes a living facing danger for your entertainment...
Elephants leave a particularly durable image. As a boy, I accepted the skill of the acrobats, equestrian and trapeze artists with some indifference, but the elephants had bulk. Like the blue whale and the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History, the elephant is an undeniably massive presence at the circus...
...business filled with true showmen, Paul Binder, the ringmaster of The Big Apple, seems modest by comparison. He allows the skill of the performers to woo the audience. When he introduces the Flying Vasquez, he does not mention that Miguel was the first trapeze artist in history to complete a quadruple somersault, formerly thought impossible...