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...Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee and Thompson, the two-time Olympic decathlon champion, puffing for three, embody all the basic wonders of the Games and encompass almost every grade of emotion. One is just arriving at a place the other has been straining to maintain. She's the blur; he's the mist. They have a "special understanding," as he likes to put it, and a few things...
...ringed all around with skepticism and mixed feelings. (Who wants to cross over anyway? You come here.) Not everyone is crazy about the term Hispanic, which came into vogue in the 1970s and was seized by marketers; it seems to smudge a dozen separate nationalities into an ethnic blur. And a phenomenon made up so heavily of pop charts and box-office receipts is not much help in the struggles against such things as low wages and poor education, the things that count most for Hispanics still in the barrios. There are misgivings too about the kind of treatment Hispanic...
...word is sensibilidad. It refers to a quality of temperament easier to recognize than define, a spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each distinct Latin culture, and yet artists, designers, actors and authors from all corners of Latin culture resort to the word when others fail to capture just what is most infectious about a Latin sense of style...
Whether we thought him ruthless or saintly (yes, the pendulum swung that widely) didn't really matter. Once in the race, Bobby Kennedy was the story. We launched what was to become a blur of flights, motorcades, voters pawing candidate, and motels for five, occasionally six, hours a night. First it was in Kansas, where Alf Landon gave him a surprisingly warm introduction. Then on to Tennessee. Crowds were huge, no surprise considering Bobby's celebrity. But they were also friendly. We even went to Alabama, George Wallace country, then to Indiana, where, just before the deadline, Kennedy officially entered...
...Congress by stressing a host of technocratic issues, ranging from the ozone layer to organ transplants. Ever since his comeback victory as Governor in 1982, Dukakis has artfully avoided most of the pitfalls of free-spending liberalism. His major initiatives, like welfare reform and industrial development, were designed to blur ideological differences rather than accentuate them...