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...team to the first of his unprecedented three world championships, who in a sport accustomed to the 1-0 shutout scored an astonishing 1,281 goals. For my money, if you have to pick the one best athlete of all time, it's Brazil's nonpareil Pele, the Michael Jordan of soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athletes: Who's The Greatest Of All? | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Short take: Allied POW's take on Germans on the soccer pitch. Moral: the foolishness of war, and that Pele is really cool. The movie features real players, real plays, and some great soccer at Colombes stadium in France -- just like the real thing! So enjoy some soccer where the good guys always win -- and CP promises a shiny new donkey to anyone who can prove his theory that the German captain threw the game as a gesture of peace and internationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Coupe De Potato | 6/12/1998 | See Source »

...like a little testosterone," she says, explaining why she won't play the all-female Lilith scene). Still, she's found her own platinum niche. Her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), which features songs about sexual awakening, sold more than a million copies; her last, Boys for Pele (1996), which featured a photo inside of Amos breast-feeding a piglet ("My 'madonna and child'--my father always wanted me to do a Christmas card," she laughs), took its first bow at No. 2 on the Billboard charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tori, Tori, Tori! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Lamelle (the piece suggests that, like Madonna and Pele, Lamelle transcends surnames) admits that she is "addicted" to her Quo Vadis planner, finds it "therapeutic" to write things down, and is "for now perfectly happy." No doubt, the Crimson's readers are relieved that our student body president manages to maintain a stable psyche despite the chaos that engulfs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piece on Rawlins Lacks Point | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

Here, also, the significance of Pele in the title becomes clear. Referring to the Hawaiian volcano goddess, Amos emphasizes the cathartic quality of her music--full of energy and fire, erupting and spewing forth what had been buried for too long...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: Amos Kicks It on Pele | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

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