Word: doves
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...tribes poured out and flew down onto the field. Little white sprites appeared, dancing to the irresistible beat and weaving their way through the tribes. Out of the delirious chaos came a formation, and presto, the tribes became the Olympic rings, and then the children became a huge white dove. All of it--the sprites, the tribesmen, the huge drums, Atlanta--all of it suddenly made perfect sense. Until Friday night the 1996 Summer Games merely belonged to this town. When the 4-hr. opening ceremony ended Saturday morning, millions of skeptics had become believers that the Olympics also belonged...
...Aileen was the smallest Olympian, too small to compete in her real love, swimming. Diving was just something she did instead, and it was altogether different than it is today. "In Antwerp, we dove into the city canal, a moat really, right alongside the boathouse. In those days, the two final dives were literally picked out of a hat. Our second dive was a forward somersault--you had to land feet first. Fortunately, I went last and watched as all the other girls missed theirs. Then I made mine. But the scoring system was so laborious that you often...
DIED. ULYSSES DOVE, 49, choreographer for some of modern dance's top companies in the U.S. and Europe; of aids; in New York City. His physically demanding works were often performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
...instant book, once the domain of hack publishers like Dove Books and disreputable semi-authors like Rosa Lopez, is taken to a new level of respectability with In the Name of Sorrow and Hope. Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...
With only 90 seconds remaining, Clarkson winger Jean-Francois Houle broke through all alone into the Harvard zone. Just as Houle prepared for a shot, Harvard junior Ashlin Halfnight came out of nowhere, dove through the air and tipped the puck out of harm...