Word: trademarks
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Sumners' performances are sweet and sculptural. In her trademark maneuver, she follows a kind of swooping, swanlike glide with the difficult IVi airborne spins of a double axel. Some fellow Olympic team members are concerned, however, that the sheltered teenager has not mastered the inner game of figure skating. Says one: "I really wonder if she's got the emotional strength to be what she wants to be." The determinedly upbeat Hamilton points to the difficulty of withstanding the pressure at the top. "She has the physical capabilities," he says, "but emotionally it's very, very difficult...
...forth more often than U.S. foreign policy raised the Harvard record to 4-2 and marked the Crimson's fourth home win in as many tries. It also saw the cagers post furious rallies at the end of regulation and overtime, a habit that's become something of a trademark of this Harvard squad...
Hunter S. Thompson as war correspondent? Damn straight. Just as soon as he finds a decent room. He hates dirt, and went through four hotels before finding one with hot water. With his trademark cigarette holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also...
With his ample girth, trademark black mustache and a twinkle in his eyes, Raul Ricardo Alfonsin Foulkes seems the quintessential Argentine. Born in the provincial city of Chascomus (pop. 30,000), 78 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, Alfonsin was the oldest of five children. His parents made a comfortable living running a general store founded by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from the Spanish province of Galicia in 1870. His father, Serafin, was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, and that sense of commitment seemed to rub off on his son. Says Alfonsin...
When she lined up one-on-one with Kinsella for the first stroke--24:43 into the game--she brought with her a confidence that has become Taylor's trademark. The blistering shot she drove into the upper right-hand corner of the net gave Harvard a 1-0 lead and the feeling it was on its way to an easy...