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...athlete, a game is like a drug. The more you play, the more you want to play. If you've got the skill to put a ball through a hoop or move a puck up a sheet of ice, then there's something exciting, fulfilling, even necessary about using and exhibiting that skill...
...such classes daily; many get as little as one hour a week. Where athletic programs exist, they often emphasize team sports rather than individual conditioning. "Baseball has become a cult," explains Dr. Paul Dyment, head of the American Academy of Pediatrics sports committee, "but it's a game of skill, not fitness...
...president for flight operations, warned, "I am increasingly concerned about the ever present threat of a midair collision. Within the last twelve months, United crews have averaged 6.3 near-misses per month. Any of these incidents could have resulted in a catastrophe had it not been for the professional skill of our pilots or, in some cases, just plain good luck...
Bandits is its own best plot summary. Part of Leonard's consummate narrative skill is his ability to camouflage complicated exposition as casual chatter. Thus it seems only natural that Jack Delaney, 40, a former jewel thief who has done time at a Louisiana penitentiary, should wind up working at the New Orleans mortuary owned by his brother-in-law Leo. Why is it, Leo wonders aloud, that every time they get a call to collect a corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next...
Oliver Stone's previous film was Salvador, an indictment of American involvement in Central America, made with equal skill. It failed at the box office: no one wanted to view our current indiscretions. Although we have come a long way in our intellectual understanding of what happened in Vietnam, there is still a failure to connect the past and the present. Safely enrobed in history, Vietnam cannot hurt us now. Platoon helps to bring it back to the present, to make it real for people who were infants...