Word: stroke
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...motion and emotion in all his still lifes, glamour and elan in a weighty Sunday paper. Over his 80-year career, AL HIRSCHFELD'S witty hand made hardly an inapt stroke. At his death last week, five months short of his 100th birthday, this comic muralist left an inadvertent history of 20th century entertainment. For dozens of dailies and weeklies but mainly for the New York Times, Hirschfeld drew--and drew out the spirit of--virtually every celebrity from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Roberto Benigni, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and caricature...
...battle might never have happened if not for a gruesome stroke of luck. On Jan. 27, U.S. troops and their Afghan allies were conducting random checks outside the city of Spin Boldak, a smuggler's haven near the Pakistani border, when a motorcyclist and his passenger roared past a checkpoint. The Americans and Afghans gave chase down a potholed road stretching across a broad mesa dotted with camels. During the pursuit, the turbaned man on the back of the motorcycle reached under his shawl for a grenade but fumbled it, blowing off his own legs. His comrade, Abdul Ghani, surrendered...
...game-winning point came on a stroke, causing Donegan to respond by kicking the ball in disgust...
...Hirschfeld's lines had snap and swing - movement, like a jump-rope at top speed. Millions of lines over 80 years, and not one had an inappropriate stroke. There was drama in the contrast of those black lines on a white page - a bit less when it was reprinted on the Times' gray newsprint. Which is why you should look at his work in book form: the handsomely illustrated autobiography "Hirschfeld On Line," or, for about the price of a manicure, the Gotham-glorifying "Hirschfeld's New York" and the all-movie "Hirschfeld's Hollywood...
...What's more, North Korea's designated messenger for the announcement of its nuclear violation was Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju, the very official who clinched the 1994 agreement. With this clumsy stroke, Pyong-yang undercut the credibility of its entire negotiating team. Now, even if Washington wants to get a deal, there is no one on the other side they can trust...