Word: slenderization
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...another theory to explain the sweet birdies of youth. As with most sports, the athletes are simply better than they once were, and that has enabled them to make a quicker impact. Woods is, of course, Exhibit A, the longest hitter on the tour despite his tender age and slender build. But Els is also a prime example of the new athleticism. When President Clinton saw the 6-ft. 3-in. Els at Congressional, he commented, "Big, strong kid, isn't he? Looks like a linebacker...
...capable of loving Eve, "it was Lilith he longed for." Jewel's is a fey, insidious charm, equal parts worldly and naive, where flaws--the crooked nose and crooked teeth she is so proud of--only betray an uncommon beauty. Then there is the improbable match of slender youth and that voice--an astonishingly versatile instrument ranging from soul-shattering yodels to the most eloquent of whispers to arch Cole Porter-ish recitative...
McVeigh is a slender reed on which to hang so much human grief and loathing. His opacity--the blank look punctuated by occasional bursts of defense-table bonhomie--is especially revolting to those who sense that he fancies himself a prisoner of war on trial for collateral damage that he sees as the inevitable consequence of combat. That makes people want to see him dead, but it may be the best reason not to execute him--to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither, not a hero to his cause but just...
...rubber mask, he writes, "was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged, disengaged." A bit later, without drama or any great feeling of elation, he reached the top: "a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen cylinder and a battered aluminum survey pole, with nowhere higher to climb...
Looking out the window of my fifth-floor Currier House room on a clear day, I can see the landmarks of the Cambridge and Boston skylines: the mighty Prudential Center, the slender Memorial Church spire, and the sleek Hancock Tower. In the middle of these spirited architectural statements, however, sits a stubby and overlooked square tower--the top of Memorial Hall as it now exists. Every time I notice that forgotten tower from far or near, its incompleteness pains...