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...Olympian MISTY MAY-TREANOR injured during Dancing with the Stars Lindy Hop. Should've gone with the jitterbug, Misty...
...Suddenly, going to a prestigious college seemed unimpressive, and this depressing consciousness only intensified over the course of the Games. At every event, I asked my fellow guides, “If I started now, is there any sport I could still be an Olympian in? Maybe handball? Sure, the rules are a bit different, but I’ve been playing on and off since I was five! Curling? All it takes is a broom! Hurdling? Hold out your arm—I can jump over that...
...never allowed her to do, which doubled as a list of all the things she planned to check off in the near future: skiing, horseback riding, ice skating, rock climbing, and a whole slew of other activities I considered fundamental to my youth. In one sense, the young Olympian had already led an incredibly full and accomplished life, but, in another sense, she was only starting at age 16 to experience life as most of us have known it since childhood...
...Osborne Cox: his very name is steeped in two denominations of old money. After decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class of American spies who considered themselves more knowledgeable, hard-thinking and highly...
...review. David Thomson, who's up there with Manny in the film-critical pantheon, said after his death that, rereading him, he couldn't always tell what Manny thought of a film - not that analysis was lacking, just an overall value judgment. I don't think that rendering an Olympian opinion was crucial for him. It was more important to look at the work closely, tunnel into its rhythm and visual texture, then write it up, with special attention to originality of expression and sentence-solving, so that the reader can approach the finished piece with the same concentration...