Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Austin, liberal, Democratic Austin, has been known to take its own potshots at pompous Big D. In an anticipatory and funny recent stroke, Texas Monthly, a fat, fast and loose Austin publication, gave its readers a look at what the pols and the press might get into when the Republicans gather next week. The magazine asserted that the convention, a minds-made-up affair, would be so surpriseless that the networks would pursue "The Other Dallas" (CBS), "The Hidden Dallas" (NBC) and "The Dallas the Republicans Don't Want You to See" (ABC). Poverty in the black sections...
First, two Saturdays ago, he won the 100-meter dash. As the aficionados put it, Lewis was fast and Sam Graddy only quick. The time was 9.99, the margin comfortable. Then the long jump, and it could have been mailed in. "My strategy will be the same as always," he announced beforehand, "to pop a very big jump early and make everyone chase after me. If I feel 'on' after my first jump, I might take a second." For a personal Olympic motto he chose: "A gold medal is first. The world record is last." If his priorities...
Reeve, who is fast on his way to becoming the all-American hero, recalls just about all the American screen-gods of the past--from ex-Superman to heir of the Rhett Butler tradition of Southern seduction. He also knows...
Roiled since 1982 by prodigious storms, the 30-mile-wide Great Salt Lake has risen 10 ft., its fastest climb ever, overspilling its borders and flooding the land around it. What was once the driest state in the union after Nevada is fast becoming a water wasteland: tens of millions of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, wildlife has diminished catastrophically, and tourism around the lake has bottomed out. Says Utah Governor Scott Matheson, with tragicomic wit: "It's a helluva way to run a desert...
...Images of his victims appear before the blinded General; frightened, the asylum's inmates kill him, while ghosts of the liberated dead sing a hymn to the revolution: "We stand by the river./ If the water is deep we will swim./ If it is too fast we will build boats./ We will stand on the other side./ We have learned to march so well/ That we cannot drown...