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Zayak has more than her share of triple tricks but needs to learn how to cope with world-class pressure and to master the school figures, those slowly executed moves that are judged partly by examining the skate marks left after a competitor has finished. Zayak came in only seventh in that category, and was unable to make up enough ground in the four-minute free-skating event, which is her forte, to overtake her rivals...
...former world-class motorboat racer and boat salesman with a persuasive personality, Michael made more than 250 campaign speeches for his father...
...factor may have been the recent conversion to metric distances, which automatically rendered all standing GBC records obsolete. Another was the British invasion of two world-class B.U. imports who combined to win six different events, often finishing one-two well out in front of the rest of the pack...
...trio, somber teen-age gospel singers ("Praising the Lord the best way we can"), an integrated high school song-and-dance team (good enough for the Donny and Marie show), and the best clog dancing I've ever seen from the Muckalee Mudstompers, a local troupe with a world-class clogger in Jeff Moss, a 16-year-old native of Plains. Talk to him and he only talks of dancing-how he loves it, how he practices every minute he can but means to study agriculture in college. Jimmy? "Well, everybody's guessing what...
...stock situation (the impersonator), but because the characters have such depth, and because the story accumulates meaning as it goes along, every laugh is fresh, every sentiment unforced. Epic in scope, dexterous in execution, almost Shakespearean in its authority, Kagemusha affirms Kurosawa's reputation as one of our few world-class directors...