Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Hart wanted to block Mondale from a first-ballot win, he had been boxed in. Mondale strategists had reluctantly agreed not to resist Hart's one floor motion, which sought to ban the use of U.S. troops, particularly in the Persian Gulf, until after all negotiations had failed and only if U.S. security was at stake. In return, Hart instructed his delegates to vote against the Jackson dual-primary plank. In an earlier unifying move, Mondale had agreed to let Hart address the convention on Wednesday night, right before the nomination balloting was scheduled to begin...
...actual roll call proved anticlimactic. The final tally, before Hart made the traditional motion for a unanimous decision, was Mondale, 2,191; Hart, 1,200; Jackson, 465. Mondale had fallen just nine votes shy of the 2,200 targeted by his staff and was a comfortable 224 votes above a majority...
...beauty is motion, and motion does not last. Most things ephemeral have limited appeal, but the heart of the Olympics is that things shine for a moment and no more. Did Dwight Stones really clear that bar at 7 ft. 8 in.? One saw it happen a second ago. One saw it again on instant replay. Yet the jump no longer exists, nor can it return. Billy Mills, who won the 10,000-meter run in Tokyo, said, "For one fleeting moment an athlete will know he or she is the best in the world. Then the moment is gone...
Olympic Diving Coach Ron O'Brien observes, "Because Greg is stronger, he can go higher and dive slower and smoother. When most divers do a hard dive, they have to hurry to make it. Greg's diving looks like a slow-motion film, and he has a body perfectly proportioned for diving. His lines are graceful and beautiful." As Louganis describes the deliberateness, "A rattlesnake coils up, but he's not going to strike until he has every ounce of explosive power behind him." It is the same in diving...
...woman Veep, which sounded a little farfetched just a few months ago, has suddenly acquired a life of its own. The right woman might bring a feeling of something fresh and new to a campaign that so far has sounded like a large, heavy suitcase being tumbled, slow motion, down an interminable flight of stairs." That cover story, applauding the "bold aplomb" that took Ferraro from School Teacher to Assistant Prosecutor to prominent national Politician, went on to say, "It could, if the timing and political climate were precisely right, put her on the Democratic ticket in July." While taking...