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...beautiful, treacherous dance of large-radius turns. The super-G has not quite taken on its own character; it is either a slow, curvy downhill or a fast, stretched-out GS. Zurbriggen, going through high-speed gates in GS or super-G, is unmistakable: a big, rangy cat springing from turn to turn, from coiled crouch to full-body extension, from one outside, carving ski to the other. He looks fast and is. Last season he won four World Cup races in the GS, as well as one in the super-G, and earned gold medals at Crans-Montana...
...told the players to throw everything atthem, except the kitchen sink," Barnaby added,"then pick that up and throw it at them. I was areal fat cat after we won the match...
Michael is the latest and, by the look of it, most enduring of the recent British presences on the American charts. Other current London rages like the bands Swing Out Sister and Curiosity Killed the Cat have also made a heavy Stateside impression by concocting easeful pop that shirks issues and shrugs off anything more serious than having a good time. Major American talent like Bruce Springsteen often carries a big thematic stick, but Britpoppers wield a club -- a nightclub where the solipsism of Thatcher's England is chilled out, prettied up and danced to till dawn. If you have...
...this reliance on technique and surface flash flirts with fashion (Cat Vocalist Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot turned his cap front to back and started a fad) and plays fast and loose with the built-in impermanence of pop. It also makes most Britpop inbred and narcissistic and ripe for a revisionism that may already be happening. Upstart groups like the Godfathers, the Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction, and Gay Bikers on Acid are harking back to the brash activism and overheated playing of the late-'70s Clash era. In Hull, 150 miles north of the London scene, the Housemartins are purveying...
...Supreme Court. Folks here are friendly. They can't help themselves. But Down Easters draw a line between outsiders -- "people from away" -- and locals. You can be born in Hancock County and still not be judged a local if your parents were "from away." They say, "A cat can have her kittens in the oven and call them biscuits. Doesn't make...