Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starr is moving fast to wrap up the Lewinsky part of his investigations. For one thing, as soon as he's off stage, the White House strategy of making him the issue loses steam. And since legal experts are divided on whether a sitting President can be charged with a crime--like most of them, Starr leans toward no--he's also not expected to indict Clinton himself, even if he does decide he has sufficient evidence to charge the President with perjury or obstruction of justice. Instead Starr is likely to hand off the whole mess to the House...
Strike a flirtily nude pose for a women's magazine. Have a happily public affair with a TV chanteuse 19 years your senior. Tease your screen machismo in lightning banter with Johnny Carson. Make a lot of middling pictures in fast cars. Be an early victim of AIDS rumors. Just about...
...Nagano, and then on Channel 48 and Channel 47, the camera trained on competitors who looked like your Uncle Bob and the sound track made up of nothing but their curses, asides and excited cries of "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" (a technical term, one was told, meaning they should move fast). Another unlikely savior in the spotlight...
While there are differences between the men's and women's games--slap shots aren't as hard, and full body checking is not allowed among the women--play is just as intense and often very rough. No body checking usually means a fast-moving game grounded in the essential techniques of passing and stick handling. The hockey of the U.S. women's team is a skill sport. Says Mike Eruzione, captain of the "miracle on ice" 1980 U.S. men's Olympic team: "They have great feet and keep the game very basic. They are really a pleasure to watch...
Today in Moscow, however, the foreign invasion is in full swing. American consumerism is fast consuming Moscow's population. The perestroika-era novelty of Gorbachev sneaking McDonald's and Pepsi through the gates to a hungry population has begot a deluge of American products. Today, the area behind the Kremlin looks quite a bit like Times Square. Sanyo and Coca-Cola signs light up the night sky. Russians chow down at a McDonald's only a few blocks from the Kremlin, while a Pizza Hut a few blocks further down Tverskaya Boulevard faces a statue of Pushkin, Russia's national...