Word: walkerism
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...half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks and I run. He's a god - the walker." In Athens, Korzeniowski, the best racewalker of all time, will seek to gild his greatness with one last gold. He already holds three world titles and three Olympic golds, including two from 2000, when he became the first man ever to sweep the 20-km and 50-km races...
...also boost his post-Athens work - promoting walking and fitness. "Walking develops the whole body. And it's a cheap sport!" he says, in full salesman mode. "You can train anytime, anywhere." He has helped to start eight athletics clubs in Poland and owns a sportswear line, appropriately branded Walker. He coaches his sister Silwia. He's joined tennis' Williams sisters as a face of the McDonald's Go Active! fitness campaign. "I'm promoting walking," Korzeniowski says, "not their food." But his main post-Athens goal is modest. His career has allowed him just two months a year...
...last year. "Designers are looking for different lines." If the recent Fashion Week in Sydney is any guide, they are increasingly looking to menswear. New labels popped up as frequently as gelled '80s hairdos while, taking a cue from international crossover stars like Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and Karen Walker, New Zealand's Zambesi joined Akira in showing its first men's line. Where once "over in the corner was a lonely little rack called menswear," notes Sydney style maven Belinda Seper, these days "it's part of the same market. The lines are blurring...
...Skilling, Jewell Butler; Mannix Walker, Eleanor Frothingham; Howard Fisher Rosamund Forbes; Robert Davis, Margaret Davis...
...exhibition in Europe, domestic critics have attacked the film on three counts. They decry its depiction of an imaginary Depression-era small town for its brutality, its director for presuming to understand our country without ever having set foot in it, and its callous end-credits, which set Walker Evans’ famous photographs of impoverished southerners to the strains of David Bowie’s “Young Americans”. One called the film’s message “Taliban thinking” to von Trier’s face, while another wrote that...