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Word: olympicsized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Or perhaps a bit of "Kabuki theater," as an official speculated, in which the actors played out stylized roles to a foregone conclusion. Several of the top 15 advisers who sat down with Clinton in the White House Cabinet Room for a supposedly decisive session Wednesday suspected the President had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPING UP WELFARE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

Bob Dole, who talks endlessly about leadership, could have urged his Republican colleagues to think beyond the N.R.A.'s financial clout and act in the public interest. Instead, he made the eccentric proposal to reopen Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, a suggestion best described as tone-deaf, since it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST: WITHOUT A CLUE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

They really are two different people, the Michael who runs the more strategic 400 and the Michael who runs the more aggressive 200. The 400 Michael listens to jazz on his headset in the days before a race; the 200 Michael listens to gangsta rap. The 400 Michael repairs to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JOHNSON: DOUBLE FAST | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

Johnson came up with the idea of the Danger Zone four years ago, after food poisoning took him out of the Barcelona Olympics. He felt he needed to psychically bridge the gap between the 400 and the 200. Even coach Hart, a folksy Texan who prefers to sit at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JOHNSON: DOUBLE FAST | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

As on Monday, when Johnson and Perec won their respective 400s, Lewis the long jump and Allen Johnson the 110-m hurdles, Thursday evening at Olympic Stadium promised the fantastic. It was a night O'Brien had dreamed about for four years, ever since he no-heighted in the pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JOHNSON: DOUBLE FAST | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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