Word: knights
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...chairman and founder of Nike Inc. and the protagonist of Swoosh is Phil Knight, a former distance runner at the University of Oregon and a laconic accountant who thought it would be more enjoyable to sell shoes than balance checkbooks. He started out representing a Japanese running shoe called Tiger but realized he could create and hawk his own American shoe. Nike was named for the winged Greek goddess of victory and given the now familiar "Swoosh" logo (at the time, someone said it resembled an upside-down Puma insignia). At first Nike made shoes for serious runners...
...Gomes at last sets the Christian free to live by that principle which Paul was too timid to approve: "let us continue in sin, that grace may abound." A great victory, indeed, one long sought after, and one not unworthy so great a knight of Christ as Harvard's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
This division of academic life into warring special interest groups would only be enhanced by morality-play stereotyping of TDC as the white knight (oops, knight of color) that would do battle against the monolithic evil empire...
...ingratiating Mercedes Ruehl), Jack meets the husband of one of those victims, now a daft street creature called Parry (Robin Williams), who leads his fellow homeless in singing "I like New York in June./ How about you?" Parry believes that Jack is a modern Fisher King, a '90s knight searching for the grail of emotional redemption, and Parry knows where it is: in a billionaire's mansion. Parry also has a quest: to win the troth of a frayed damsel (Amanda Plummer, again doing her prom-queen-from-Mars number...
Along the thoroughfare that adjoins Tiller's clinic, a dozen pro-lifers and half as many pro-choicers petition passersby with wrenching pictures and alarming slogans. Commuters honk to register their vote -- or throw cans, bottles and even bags of urine. Says Mayor Knight: "People who in my wildest dreams would never protest -- much less put themselves in a position to be arrested -- have done just that." The abortion debate has a way of inducing indignation even among the timid and indecisive. "I came out of the closet a week ago," says pro-choicer Paul Wilson, 75. "The silent majority...