Word: mcmahon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real honest way of figuring out what's important to them," said Patty McMahon, a member of the mayor's staff who is responsible for coordinating the Youth Council...
...Bears' only Super Bowl victory. The irony, if you looked for it, was as thick as the exhaust fumes from the ZZ Top motorcycle armada that hung in the poorly-ventilated stadium air. Eleven years ago, in this same Superdome, it was Ditka who coached a charismatic Jim McMahon-led Bears squad to a 46-10 Super Bowl rout over these same Patriots. But the NFL has changed. The little hiking minuteman is gone from the Patriots' helmets. McMahon, sans headband, is now a sideline-pacer for Green Bay. And Ditka, at 57, is five years a TV analyst...
...begins more or less in 1984, when a Washington Post reporter named Elena McMahon abruptly quits covering the 1984 presidential campaign for her paper. Earlier, Elena had walked out of her marriage to Wynn Janklow, a Los Angeles megamillionaire, taking their teenage daughter Catherine with her. "She knew how to cut and run," says the narrator, who had met Elena in Los Angeles; both were regular invitees to Oscar-night parties that strongly resemble, as described here, the legendary ones thrown by the late agent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar. Didion's narrator does not dwell on this detail...
...mood may have changed, but for the most part it was determined. "We've got to get on with what we're here to do," says Robert Norris, a track-and-field coach for the South African team. "We're too busy to worry." U.S. hammer thrower Kevin McMahon agreed. After years of preparation, he was ready to compete Saturday. "This is just a reminder that sports is the ideal, not the reality," McMahon says. "It would be nice to do nothing but practice and compete, but that would be living life with blinders...
...thinking about going into the Irish section of Boston," said Alana J. McMahon...