Word: ah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked a little like a young Paul Newman, this West Coast kid with the blue eyes, thin nose and mobile mouth. Ah, that mouth... But he stopped talking for at least 1 min. 45:59 sec. last week. Starting sixth, wearing tasteful white-and-peach candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together...
...Ah, yes, those five interlaced rings, the stirring 70-year-old symbol of Olympic unity and international brotherhood. Not quite. Look closer. The three uppermost circles have been transformed into the letters a, b, c, and they are linked arm in arm with the lower two. ABC's logotype for the Sarajevo Games is more than just clever corporate iconography; it symbolizes the union between television and the Olympics, a continuing love affair between technology and the athletes it covers. It is a match made in advertising heaven and the visionary mind of Roone Arledge, the president...
...Ah. The electronic cottage. Just four years ago, Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave described a halcyon future when people would work at home connected to the office by inexpensive computers. No more commuting. No more expensive office buildings. Higher productivity since employees would not be constantly interrupted as they are at the office. Wrote Toffler: "Our entire economy would be altered almost beyond our recognition...
...splendid economy of language at her parting in New York City's St. Luke's Hospital in 1968. "Bourbon," she said. The Irish writer Brendan Behan rose to the occasion in 1964 when he turned to the nun who had just wiped his brow and said, "Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops." Some sort of award for sharp terminal repartee should be bestowed (posthumously) upon an uncle of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Holmes, who lay dying in his Boston home in 1899. A nurse kept feeling his feet, and explained to someone...
...Peter's Square was transformed. In a bare, white-walled cell in Rome's Rebibbia prison, John Paul tenderly held the hand that had held the gun that was meant to kill him (see cover). For 21 minutes, the Pope sat with his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ah Agca. The two talked softly. Once or twice, Agca laughed. The Pope forgave him for the shooting. At the end of the meeting, Agca either kissed the Pope's ring or pressed the Pope's hand to his forehead in a Muslim gesture of respect...