Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to write a character who has the power to charm. They're like witty people -- the author had better be able to suggest an elusive quality without making heavy weather of the whole matter. Stephen McCauley has that skill. The hero of The Easy Way Out is a fellow of no obvious consequence, but the reader gladly follows him through a dizzy emotional crisis...
That may help explain why even grandparents who have never heard of Sergei Bubka will shout along with the Games, and why half the world tunes in. If the first joy of following sports is seeing skill at work in a partisan cause, the second is watching surprise defeat expectation. Every hopeless cause is everybody's favorite, and every 1,000-to-1 shot seems like our hometown hero. The pleasure of watching Michael Jordan play is almost matched by the very different pleasure of seeing an Angolan accountant turned point guard play Michael Jordan one-on-one. That...
...conductor of great skill and dark, sexy good looks, Gergiev, 39, could be getting rich on the international concert and opera circuit. But, he says, , "that's not what it's about." What matters to him is the Kirov, whose past he reveres and in whose future he has militant confidence. "It will go on naturally and beautifully as it has for 200 years. It's full of energy -- lots of vitamins...
During my first year of college, I was known for one skill: being able to tell what was for dinner in the Union from the middle of the Yard. I could discern the faint differences between the aroma of the scorched oil they used to cook fried chicken and the slightly pungent, greasy scent of spicy waffle fries. You could never get Hamburger Extravaganza past...
...Weil. Weil worked for Rollerblade until six months ago, when she quit and decided to start a team to give exhibitions and compete with other squads. She started scouting at Boston's Esplanade for talented skaters, and later held auditions to find the skaters with the most flair and skill...