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...runs. On the second run down Whiteface, Stenmark swept down the course in a style close to perfection. His timing, his anticipation of the gates, his relaxed air, gave the run a preternatural grace. A cat can slink across a dressertop dense with perfume bottles and barely brush them with its fur; Stenmark went through 55 gates like that. Near one of the final gates, his skis chattered into a left turn and slid slightly. He corrected, and shot home to a gold medal, more than a second faster than Wenzel. The bronze went to Austria...
...that as it may, there is no doubt that his fearsome reputation as a demonic troublemaker on the set gathered momentum during the years after his brush with death. (He has a pacemaker, and his anxiety about his health increased understandably last year after his latest heart attack.) What tends to happen on location with Sellers is that the star grows increasingly insecure as filming approaches and during the early days of the shoot. Then, if he does not find his character, or if he senses a lack of support?and he requires monumental amounts of ego boosting?writers, directors...
Routine defense needs including those of long term occupation forces and forces for fighting "brush fire" wars should be made up of volunteer, long term, career professionals, not from short term conscripts...
When the candidate does venture a stand, he often does so primarily to adjust his media image. For example, when Bush denounces the registration of firearms, he not only gains the support of the boys down at the rifle club, but also adds an important conservative brush stroke to his self-portrait. Journalists can further muddle the hazy relationship between issues and images by failing themselves to differentiate between...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...