Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figure-skating competition begins next week. Otherwise, the efforts of other athletes competing in more decorous endeavors will be overshadowed as the public and the media hunger for a catfight. Notwithstanding the blades on ice, the skate-off will be much more polite. Nevertheless, for the skating community, the mess underscored the fact that the sport is no longer a sheltered world of quaint skills. It is far, far from the old days when folk traced patterns on the dark ice of country ponds and competition was a genteel affair involving ladies and gentlemen...
...pairs skater Karen Courtland has figured out her personal way of coping with the mess. "I'm going to be cheering for all the Americans," she vowed, "whoever my teammates are." It's not quite the Olympic ideal, but these are not ideal Olympics...
...fact, new questions keep popping up even as special counsel Robert Fiske prepares to launch his probe into all aspects of the mess. The latest: Did Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, back in Arkansas days, underpay their federal income taxes by much more than they have previously admitted? A TIME examination of bank records, interviews with some leading participants and consultations with tax experts indicate that is at least enough of a possibility to warrant a close look by Fiske and his probers...
Meanwhile, if the press and congressional Republicans appear to be hounding the Clintons over what seem like minor arcane details, the White House must take much of the blame. Its response to the Whitewater mess has been not just bumbling but secretive -- giving out partial and conflicting information, coyly withholding documents, hunkering down in a way that encourages suspicion. And if the White House cannot establish that it is leveling with press and public on small matters, it will be hard-pressed to win trust on great affairs of state...
...their eyes, the confidence of experience having displaced the emotions of youth. Businesslike, even cold and calculating now, Harvard hockey says "Don't mess with us," and for nine games nobody...