Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suriname won its first gold medal ever at the pool. Anthony Nesty's record swim in the 100-meter butterfly brought out a bright national banner with the wonderful slogan A DIRT WAGON CARRIES DIRT, BUT IT DOES NOT CARRY SHAME. There were old names too. Saving her heptathlon for the coming world championships in Rome, the regal Jackie Joyner-Kersee focused on the long jump and equaled East German Heike Drechsler's 24-ft. 5 1/2-in. world mark. With Carl Lewis standing by for his own turn at the long jump and Greg Louganis still perched on his diving...
Reporting on the U.S. perspective in Washington were Correspondents Michael Duffy, a pool reporter on the cruiser U.S.S. Fox in the gulf only weeks before; David Aikman; Bruce van Voorst; and Barrett Seaman. Seaman traveled from TIME's bureau to the sweltering heat of the West Wing driveway to buttonhole congressional visitors, then to the air-conditioned White House back offices. "It was hardly as dangerous as the gulf," said Seaman, "but it did bring the threat of a good old-fashioned summer cold...
This scene is part of the cultural underground in Iran today. Among those who can afford them, American rock videocassettes are a big favorite. Groups of young men, many of them draft dodgers, pool their money to buy video recorders. The regime's efforts to eradicate all Western influences, and especially such evils as music, dance and free speech, have spawned a thirst for whatever the Islamic republic denounces as sinful. Example: the continuing popularity of a satirical videotaped movie called Samad Becomes the Imam, featuring a goofy, rustic character who emerges as the supreme ruler of the Islamic state...
...Hispanics from full participation in mainstream society. "We don't want to get to the point," says Dr. Reed Tuckson, public health commissioner of Washington, "where people say to any black, 'You can't come into my restaurant, and you damned sure can't come into my swimming pool...
...served as TIME's diplomatic correspondent and has written four books on relations between the two superpowers. Early on, Talbott spotted Gorbachev as a political comer -- a little too early, it turned out. "When Yuri Andropov died in February of '84," he recalls, "we had an office pool on the succession, and I put a dollar on the dark horse, Gorbachev. I lost. It wasn't until Konstantin Chernenko's death 13 months later that...