Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since Clinton reached for him two years ago in late-night phone calls to help steer his political comeback, the former Republican strategist has become famous for casting a mighty and mysterious spell on the presidency. But the true magic of Morris isn't so much making Clinton understand that the American majority dances to a Republican tune, or extracting great ideas from Mark Penn's and Doug Schoen's zeitgeist-tracking polls, or rummaging through the bureaucracy looking for programs that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing...
...Clinton made a hash of his first term by taking on too many issues and angering key constituencies, and by the time Hillary Clinton placed an emergency call to Morris late in the 1980 re-election campaign, it was too late. Clinton lost. Morris flew in to plot the comeback--Clinton apologizing for his mistakes, hacking at his opponents--that returned him to power. "It's very important for me to convey how deeply I care about this man, what an inspiration, even a guide he's been," says Morris. "He is the essence of my career...
...Ernest Ranglin (who has a new CD out) and the Skatalites (ditto). In the late '70s ska resurfaced in the unlikely setting of Coventry, England, where the small but influential 2-Tone label brought back the sound with acts like the Selecter and the Specials (who just released a comeback...
...sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty, musical laugh. Sophisticated but not stuffy, a superior creature who never condescended, she proved the maxim that a woman should be, first and foremost, a lady. Her characters flummoxed leading men into stammering or spouting purple prose by wielding the comeback, the put-down, the come-on, all in one sprightly barrage. Cool Claudette. "I can say immodestly that I'm a very good comedienne," Colbert told TIME in 1981. "But I was always fighting that image too. I just never had the luck to play bitches...
...fourth. Lenzi retired after the 1993 season, suffering from post-Olympic gold stress. He fell into debt and briefly considered selling his gold medal to pay for flight school. He resumed his career in April 1995 and now has a chance to add a second gold medal. "My whole comeback year, prelims have been killing me every single time," Lenzi said, "but the final are great." In other events Monday, sixth-seed Jana Novotna bumped top-seeded Monica Seles from the Olympic tennis tournament, rallying from a 5-3 third-set deficit...