Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed it is. What emerges from this complex collaboration is the illusion that, by George, Gershwin is right in one's living room, banging away in his fluid song-plugger style. "Gershwin never played soft," observes Wodehouse. But he did have a consummate technical command of his instrument, which, coupled with the tremendous rhythmic vitality of his playing, gives his performances an irresistible strut and swagger. Two more Gershwin albums are on the way from Wodehouse. 'S Wonderful...
Goaltending: B+. Aaron Israel has been one of the pleasant surprises of the year; his 2.51 GAA is in the nation's top five, and his penchant for conceding the occasional soft goal has disappeared almost entirely from last year. He looks in top form nearly every time out, and his work ethic in practice has been a main reason...
...sunshine. When the air finally clears, only one skater still looks as if she is floating. She is Oksana Baiul, 16, the world figure-skating champion and the favorite to win the gold in the Olympics next month. It is astonishing that she can train at all on the soft, uneven ice, but a bad surface has been just one of the problems she has had to cope with...
Anywhere else, such a volume of slippery streets and sidewalks would attract hordes of accident victims, eager to suffer painful yet invisible "soft tissue" damage. Mysteriously, Cambridge hasn't yet become the liability capital of the world. This is especially surprising considering the presence of a Law School nearby, providing a supply of the very people who earn their keep by insuring that the clumsy and duplicitous never go uncompensated for their pain and suffering, physical and mental, real and fictitious...
...often no amount of knowledge will help. We have all seen those who, hemmed in at the corner of a sidewalk, have reached that perilous moment of realization: The snow is too soft to serve as a causeway, the puddle is too wide for evasion, too long for jumping and too deep for tip-toeing. It is here that Cantabrigians can be seen drawing on their knowledge of Kierkegaard, and taking a heedless leap of faith (faith in what, you ask? Not God, but in the cans of silicone they applied to their Timberlands, of course...