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Several spills and seven Winter Olympics races without a medal had put the speed skater in the express lane to sports oblivion. But the hard-luck kid from Wisconsin kept on trying, and in Lillehammer, one liberating 1,000-m performance earned him a gold medal and turned him into a symbol of deserving victory...
Dorothy Parker quipped her way into minor celebrity, wrote her way into modest immortality and drank herself into near oblivion. All talk and no action, she is not an ideal subject for a movie. But if you must film this life, you'd better do something more than flatly recount the failed promise and failed romances that made it miserable...
...NATO's vote last week to consider membership for former Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion." A Clinton Administration official dismissed Yeltsin's criticism as "alarmist...
...like to think that at the end, the car in which Alex and Michael Smith were trapped turned into an amniotic sac, providing sweet, uncaring, uncomprehending oblivion...
That said, it is far from certain that the conference will have lasting impact. Most U.N. action programs seem to be the bureaucratic equivalent of Tibetan mandalas, those intricate designs of colored sand arduously crafted through years of work. Once completed, they are allowed to blow away into oblivion. Maher Mahran, Egypt's outspoken Population Minister, endorsed the conference for "energizing" governments to face a crucial issue but said he doubted that countries would pay attention to the specifics of the action plan...