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Indeed it was. As the guns sounded overseas, gallus-snapping Congressmen and dollar-a-year New Dealers, bullnecked racists and high-toned society hostesses, secretaries and alphabet-soup bureaucrats from the OPA, BEW, CAS and OEM all began to audition for their roles in history. The little Southern town abruptly became an arena of contradictions, and Brinkley surveys them...
...Nieuwendyk: Joe Nieuwendyk. He left Cornell this year to play for the Clagary Flames, where he has scored a lot of goals as a rookie. He is the only player around that uses all the other letters of the alphabet to spell his name...
...between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted three centuries, when even the alphabet was lost, and then a long, slow crawl back up to the light...
...beguiling as she is fickle, Bizet's Gypsy Carmen is a temptress whose passions run the emotional alphabet from A to Z. Even on ice. For Debi Thomas, the accent is on P. Her Carmen is usually powerful, plucky, practical and pretty. Katarina Witt's Carmen is a study in S, at once sensuous, seductive, stylish and shrewd. But last Saturday night, when the long-awaited skate-off between the two Carmens got under way in the Olympic Saddledome, America's sweetheart proved an unexpected B: a bobbly bundle of nerves capable only of bronze...
...consume practice time that could be better devoted to freestyle skating. Critics would like to see the figures count for less than 30% of the final mark, or perhaps even dropped. Others counter that trying to skate without mastering figures is like trying to write without learning the alphabet...