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Like a person on a bicycle, Clinton must pedal forward in order to stay upright. And yet the terrain he is pedaling toward is full of pock marks, fox holes and blood...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Clinton's Fatal Balkan Trap | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...sports page is not a carefully crafted conspiracy. We are a small pedal-to-the-metal staff of humans, after all. Even though our job is specifically to prevent mistakes from happening, Tarek and I aren't perfect either. Like lacrosse goalies, we handle shot after shot, but that odd one will sneak by us. The readers have set a high goal for us--to be perfect. And we do our damnedest to reach that goal...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Good Sports | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...their third and latest album, Angel Dust, Faith No More's response is to rev up their guitar engines, crank the bass, drums and keyboards, and with a loud scream put the pedal to the metal and once again blaze their own road. Some of the songs are indeed catchy, but don't expect them to become Top 40 fodder, as neither the band's turbulent sound nor its acerbic wit has been sacrificed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Their Own Road | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...decades ago and invented the Carter Scratch. The new wave of country singers is dominated by artists who have succeeded largely on their own terms, consolidating an eclectic mix of contemporary sounds with old-fashioned catches in the throat, tinkles of the mandolin, sugary sobs and vertiginous swoops of pedal steel guitar. This generation's performers are the first bred on both rock and country who are consciously choosing Nashville, as Vince Gill did when he turned down a chance to join the rock group Dire Straits in favor of continuing his country career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...Most of the world still revels in its final hours of blissful sleep. But on deserted Cambridge-area roads, approximately 30 Harvard cyclists ready themselves for two hours of pedal-pumping euphoria...

Author: By Peggy L. Yeh, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Pumping Away: Cyclists Prep for Spring | 3/13/1992 | See Source »

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