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Bush sounded buoyant as he flew fromsnow-dusted Michigan to Ohio, Missouri and finallytoward a campaign curtain-closer in Houston...
...diving board last week and, in a blissful spell of dizziness, thought it heard the Suriname anthem playing on the Olympic Victrola. For just a second there, a 4-ft. 11-in. Turk seemed to be lifting a 420-lb. dumbbell, the equivalent of two Olympic committeemen. A buoyant black swimmer with ordinary thighs was receiving the gold medal. South Korea was rioting in a boxing ring. The phones were working. The laundry was ready. And in the race for regal figure, Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis both came running...
...Bush's hopes for a buoyant bounce from that speech were sacrificed on the altar of Dan Quayle, the man he had selected only two days earlier to be his running mate. The surprise choice, and the way it was handled, revealed some of the weaknesses of Bush's approach to governance -- from a crippling fear of leaks to a distaste for face-to-face confrontation. At one point, only hours before Bush's acceptance speech, campaign aides considered the possibility that Quayle might be dumped from the ticket. Although Quayle survived the initial storm, there were strong indications that...
...Lesley Gore, but they share separate turf. Lee and Gore and other icons of the '60s had an edge in their voice, an ache in their heart. The pube rockers put a tune over with a kind of suburban satisfaction that can be cute and even, like Tiffany, buoyant and appealing but never goes any deeper than the label...
...Longtime Skateboarder Thatcher speaks to a deeper appeal: "The skater doesn't have to rely on anybody or anything to do his sport. He doesn't need a wave, a ski slope or a team, and he likes it that way." The police, of course, do not, and the buoyant banditry of skateboarding can lead the law a merry chase. "To skateboard you've got to be aggressive, and you've got to be a little crazy," says Roger Mullen, 17, of Ventura, Calif. Law officers get heated up over potential noise, traffic, safety and property violations. Explains Mark Wynn...