Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meter butterfly. In the men's 200 butterfly, the three top finishers all came in faster than Soviet Sergei Fesenko did in winning the gold medal. In both the 200 backstroke and 100 breaststroke, two Americans finished under the Moscow times. The performances were remark able considering that many of the swimmers eased up on their training when the boycott was announced. Jesse Vassallo, 18, of Mission Viejo, Calif, quit altogether for six weeks but managed to outclock his Moscow counterpart in the 400 individual medley...
...months as a hostage in Iran. Queen, now recuperating with his family in Maine after his release, spoke about his 250 days in captivity last week with TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro. For all the hardship he endured, he told his story calmly and dispassionately, even recalling a jocular remark a fellow captive once made about his equanimity: "You are a perfect hostage...
...series of essays on Kipling, Jarrell echoed Mark Twain's remark that "it isn't what they don't know that hurts people, it's what they do know that isn't so." He urged readers to forget what they thought they knew of Kipling, the crude laureate of imperialism, and to replace it with a Kipling eloquently portrayed as "a great genius; and a great neurotic; and a great professional, one of the most skillful writers who have ever existed...
...Goddamnit, Sam!" yelled Lyndon. "What the hell kind of remark is that?" The president hung up only after giving his brother a 20-minute tongue-lashing...
...Jackie Onassis, Templesman has hired New York Lawyer Theodore Sorensen, once the chief speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, to represent his interests. In Freetown, it is widely suspected that Stevens takes his cut of his country's dealings with De Beers. That rumor may have prompted the angry remark of one black nationalist leader at the recent summit, namely that African nations doing business with South Africa "ought to be disciplined by the O.A.U." Since all too many countries on the continent have trade dealings with Pretoria, the chances of any such disciplinary action against Sierra Leone are very...