Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks to a sleepy incumbent and a seemingly lightweight rival candidate, the Democrats may succeed in recapturing the White House on themes of "management" and "competence," without invoking the dreaded "L" word or the ideas behind it. And after a decade of Republican hypocrisy -- especially after what happened to Walter Mondale's small experiment in straight talk four years ago -- the Democrats may be entitled to one hypocritical victory of their own. But the next one they should try to win fair and square...
...cruising in his 26-ft. Wellcraft speedboat, listening to music -- from the Doors and Steely Dan to Luciano Pavarotti -- or just driving around in his Porsche. His favorite form of recreation, however, is going on long bike rides with his sons, who are both committed triathletes. Astride his extra-lightweight "Jan Le Grand" racer, which was specially made for him by a Miami bike shop, Olmos cycles with his boys as often as five times a week, when his schedule permits. The three usually limit their tours to 18 or 20 miles, though they have been known to pedal...
Unable to match the success of its heavier counterpart, the Harvard lightweight crew placed second behind top-seeded Princeton in the national championship Empire State Regatta on the Hudson River in Albany, N.Y. It was the second straight year that the lights were runners-up for the national title...
John Kennedy's stature is retrospectively inflated by his martyrdom. But as a candidate he was seen as a lightweight. "There are men and there are boys," wrote Murray Kempton in 1960. "Lyndon Johnson, say of him what you will, is a man. Jack Kennedy...
Perky and lightweight, the Suzuki Samurai four-wheel-drive vehicle has become a trendy runabout in the U.S. Last week, though, Consumer Reports magazine said it will give the Samurai a rating of "not acceptable" in its July issue, the first such verdict it has rendered in a decade. The magazine's publisher, Consumers Union, conducted emergency-handling tests in which the two latest Samurai models tended to tip over at speeds of about 40 m.p.h. when the driver made sharp turns...