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...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Floor of Dreams | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...BAKER's return to the president's side has been described to key Republicans as the "cold war pivot." Having teamed up with Bush to kiss the communist threat goodbye, the honchos were told, Baker will now act as a sort of deputy President, managing the campaign, then leading a sweeping domestic agenda during a second Bush term. But the truth is that Baker is only making an emergency house call as Mr. Fix-It. If Bush wins re-election, Baker has told friends that he will help tool up a domestic strategy and hire the right folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Making a Few Repairs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...AXIOM OF POLITICS THAT running for the White House involves a zig and then a zag: during the primaries, candidates of both parties normally concentrate on wooing the liberal or conservative wings of their parties; once nominated, they pivot toward the broad middle of the American electorate, where the White House is lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 34% Solution | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...busy personally turning "the world around" during his first term to devote himself to domestic problems. In his second term, he promises to do better. As he put it last week in Knoxville, "We stand today at what I think most people would agree is a pivot point in history, at the end of one era and the beginning of another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: How Bush Will Battle Buchanan | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Annelies, often quiet amidst this turmoil, remains the pivot of the work, a living symbol of Indonesia. She's an enigmatic blend of Native and European influences, admired by all and destroyed by all, confused and enfeebled...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: The Freshness of the Spoken Word | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

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