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...freedoms have been embraced enthusiastically. Hanoi vendors squat on the curbs during the evening selling a variety of goods, ranging from tiny bananas to disco shoes. In Haiphong, the 400 employees of a machine workshop are moonlighting with zeal. Every afternoon when the state work is finished, the metal scraps are gathered and turned into spare parts for gasoline stoves or into metal strips to bind wooden crates. So far the extra work has added between 30% and 40% to the average laborer's monthly...
Tickner came to serious skating at an age when most coaches felt he was too old to reach world-class standards: during his freshman year in college. He had to go back to work on his compulsory figures, those painstaking loops and turns that judges squat to scrutinize like the Rosetta stone. He has never caught up with the class; school figures remain his weakest point. But naysayers who insist that the double lutzes and triple salchows are jumps that have to be grooved into muscle memory before a boy is old enough to shave have been proved wrong...
...court for the new game is a squat, U-shaped building that formerly housed the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group and is now called the American Institute in Taiwan. The A.I.T., manned by temporarily "retired" Foreign Service officers, hands out as many visas to the U.S. for Republic of China passport holders as did the old U.S. embassy. More important, it serves to nurture Taiwan's ever growing commercial ties with...
...opening scene, famous for its courtly formality, its symmetry, and its fairy-tale irrationality, looks completely straightforward until you notice the Fool wandering around in a squat, waving a wooden gyroscope over his head like some mystical wand. The standard swipes, grunts, and lunges of the Shakespearian sword-fight punctuate the duel between Edgar and Edmund, but the preceding battle between France's forces and the English army becomes a strange slow-motion dumbshow on Cain's stage...
...short, squat, and in his sixties, an obvious veteran of baseball history. With blue bermuda shorts and a white T-shirt covering his beer-bloated physique, he looked almost comical. But the man could talk baseball. And talk, and talk, and talk...