Word: omnium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defining trial of the 1990s. The Simpson case offhand seems an unbeatably lurid end-of-the-millennium American omnium-gatherum of race (the nation's oldest, most durable inflammation of the psyche), sex, celebrity, media hype, justice and injustice . A perfect demonstration of how the American tendency to moralize has gone into partnership with the American appetite for trash-the superego and the id so nicely morphed that they are indistinguishable...
...NINE SLEEK THOROUGHBREDS exploded out of the starting gate in the $38,000 Prix Omnium II at the Saint-Cloud racecourse outside Paris earlier this month, all binoculars were trained on a single horse. In the diffident manner that marks his style, the diminutive three-year-old, a crooked white blaze crossing his handsome forehead, hung well back. He settled into sixth place in the 1,600-m contest, moving along at a leisurely gallop that offered no hint of the fireworks to come...