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Underscoring her sixth straight European championship with seven perfect sixes, Witt is poised to go out on top at 22. East Germany's system of athletics may be the acclaimed model of scientific selection, but Witt ended up the sweetheart of Karl-Marx-Stadt for the purest reasons: her kindergarten happened to be next door to the skating hall, and her parents were softhearted. In Valley Girl German (Rhine Valley), she explains, "I bugged them until they finally gave in and registered me for skating classes. They never thought it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skater Debi Thomas: The Word She Uses Is Invincible | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but no because it's wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, A Few Words from the Wise | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

What happened was that we saw three lions, and Moses suddenly came alive in the purest spontaneous act. The presence of the lions brought Moses electrically alert. The damndest thing. The lions brought the visitor electrically alert as well, though with less self-confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

actually the purest branch. "Now, Hinduism...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...skin as if it were the Eucharist. Later another nun tastes the dying Therese's tubercular sputum and makes of it a sacrament of ecstatic commitment. To Cavalier, these acts have a spiritual and physical grace, for they are outward signs of the sisters' bond. In the purest love -- worldly or divine -- nothing is impossible, nothing is impure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What She Did for Love THERESE | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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