Word: vigor
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...took time--and a feeling of not quite belonging at an Asian students' club--for Ferronato to finally realize that she is neither Japanese nor white. She is both. "Now I believe in the theory of hybrid vigor," she says. "A specimen derived from two different species has the strongest traits of both sides...
...someone touch a nerve? GWYNETH PALTROW, who was enthusiastically embraced by the British press after her recent performance on the London stage, is now being pilloried. Her crime: suggesting that Englishmen lack a certain vigor when it comes to the opposite sex. In an interview with Now magazine, she revealed that she had been asked out only twice during her London stay. "British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates," she said. "If someone asked you out, they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time." On behalf...
...took time-and a feeling of not quite belonging at an Asian students' club-for Ferronato to finally realize that she is neither Japanese nor white. She is both. "Now I believe in the theory of hybrid vigor," she says. "A specimen derived from two different species has the strongest traits of both sides...
...Some of these events occurred after "Hellfire" went to press. The book is beautifully written, of course - Tosches is the Sugar Ray Robinson of biographers, muscular but not muscle-bound, gliding, circling, then stinging with an insight - and has an unflagging, indeed accelerating, vigor for 150 pages. Eventually, though, the narrative winds down into terse renditions of Jerry Lee's police blotter. It's as if Tosches were waiting, with suppressed impatience, for his subject to expire or explode...
...from French politics, saying that the strong showing of the National Front party had come “like a thunderbolt.” Yet, in many ways, that evening’s speech reflected the gravest of Jospin’s many electoral miscalculations. The growing potency and vigor of right-wing parties in Western Europe over the past few years has been strengthened by political apathy among moderate voters. Le Pen’s success was the latest in a string of ever-more-threatening triumphs for extremists across the continent, not merely an isolated...