Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of perp to spend his time in the joint pumping iron or tattooing his knuckles, traitor ALDRICH AMES has hit the books instead. Alas, WILLIAM SAFIRE's new novel, Sleeper Spy, was not to the former CIA man's liking; it so irked him that he knocked out a review. The Hill, a congressional weekly, heard that the review was circulating and, given Ames' unique body of knowledge, offered to publish it (for no fee). "Safire uses heavy-duty cardboard for his characters," writes Ames, adding that the plot is "preposterous." But Safire isn't hurt. "It's always...
...LAST STEAM RAILROAD IN AMERICA Photographs by O. Winston Link; text by Thomas H. Garver (Abrams; $49.50). If you were in the driver's seat, it was the embodiment of Manifest Destiny. If you were in its way, as were the tribes of the Great Plains, it was the iron horse, snorting emissary of the unstoppable paleface invasion. Today the sooty beast is the stuff of nostalgia. This is a book of homage to those vanished symbols of expansion and industrial might. The evocative old images recall a time when belching smoke and slashing rail lines were signs of progress...
Perhaps to his own surprise, Izquierdo--who had emigrated from Cuba hoping to teach dance--turned out to be a wonderful father. At first there were panicky calls to female acquaintances about diapers and formula, but eventually he mastered the basics. Every morning he would iron a dress for Elisa and put her beautiful hair into braids or pigtails. When she was four, he rented a Queens banquet hall for a party marking her baptism. Says a friend, Mary Crespo: "She was his life. He would always say Elisa was his princess...
Last year, a state panel said the small amounts of radioactive calcium and iron eaten by 74 residents of the Fernald School had no discernible effect on their health...
...world championships in Goteborg, Sweden, in August, Johnson not only won both the 200 and 400 gold medals, he also anchored the victorious U.S. 4x400-meter relay team. After that performance, Nebiolo, the Italian who rules the IAAF with an iron hand, said he would consider the unusual though not unprecedented step of altering the schedule. According to Johnson's agent, Brad Hunt, "What Michael is hoping is that the two events get completely separated. He wants to finish one before he starts the other." Both Johnson and the Atlanta organizing committee were expecting a decision in October; they...