Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important, had a chemistry that satisfied audiences. Says Witt: "We both like to express feelings and live within the characters and story. I think more about a character when I'm with someone else on the ice, so the acting is better. And we wanted to put together East...
...Boitano and Witt, moreover, skating together represents a pragmatic compromise between getting an audience and pursuing their true calling, solo performance. Says Witt: "We each have two solos per show. But we also do partner skating, which is totally different." The moves in pair skating are much closer to dance and emphasize carrying and tossing the female partner rather than individual jumps and spins. Thus the genre is at once less athletic than what Boitano and Witt are used to and far more athletic than what they can achieve together without years of practice. Witt, who is not pushing herself...
...quickly appealed the ruling and on November 18, just one day after the last briefs were filed, the Supreme Court refused to lift the order. The court ruled 7 to 2 against CNN, with an unusual pair of justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Thurgood Marshall, dissenting...
Thirteen hours later, Watson is co-starring with Mayor Kathryn Whitmire at a community meeting in Acres Homes, a high-crime black neighborhood. Whitmire and Watson are an odd pair, two very different feminist success stories. Dressed in bright colors, the two-term mayor is poised, polished and political. The chief, who in February became the first woman to head a major urban police department, is passionate, very pregnant and plainclothed in a black maternity dress. "The most important job in the police department is not my job," she says, "but the uniformed officer on the street. And right...
...squeezed into my best pair of flesh-constraining Spandex, then pulled on my most inspiring t-shirt (the one that depicts Garfield saying, "I'm not overweight, I'm undertall,") and a sweatshirt. Palms sweating, I headed across Garden...