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Time in that sense is the referee at every Olympic event, the ghost in the machine, as fickle a third party as in the Shakespeare sonnets. Biathletes begin their runs, like every amateur timing himself at home, the minute the second hand hits 00:00, and pay for missing shots with penitential 30-second loops; hockey players serve sentences for penalties that seem to last for years. Of course, this is true in every sport, or every life that knows a slip, a birth, a marriage, but in the Olympics an athlete comes into the spotlight for a second...
...ghost of Dick Thornburgh haunting Arlen Specter? The two-term Pennsylvania Senator, now standing for re-election, has been running into some mighty irritated women voters on the campaign trail. Many are still miffed over his treatment of Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings. Specter wanted to clear that up by making a commercial stating that he is not a sexist, but wiser heads on his campaign staff talked him out of it. On top of that, he's been getting no respect from potential voters watching JFK in Pennsylvania movie theaters. When it is mentioned in the film that...
...every event, time is the great referee, the ghost in the machine...
...voice of the ghost of Magdalena, one of the seven narrators, acts as the foundation of Divina Trace. Magdalena Divina, her memory residing in a holy statue of a black madonna, tells her version of the legend to Johnny Domingo. During her account, another narrator intervenes and takes over the story...
...successfully defended the America's Cup, launched the first station distributed nationally to cable systems via satellite and the first 24-hour news network, and made the first edition of the Forbes 400 list -- enough success, he says, to have begun to lay "the ghost" of that paternal judgment "to rest." But he was still an emotional cripple. Turner's role model as a grownup remained an alcoholic father whose behavior was as extreme as it was unpredictable, who boasted about his sexual conquests, fought often with his wife and ultimately divorced her after 20 years...