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Exactly so, said many critics. The Frecce Tricolori have a reputation for recklessness. Nutarelli, the oldest on the team, was a daredevil known for a breathtaking stunt called the bell ringer, in which he killed his engine in midair, plummeted downward and restarted it in time to pull up before crashing. "The Italians fly with brio, with panache and with skill," said Jacques Bottelin, leader of France's Patrouille Martini civilian flying team. "But they push too far." The Italian team has performed in the U.S., most recently two years ago at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Significantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Hellfire from The Heavens | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Kevin Miller is no ringer...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Olympian Kevin Miller Sets the Record Straight | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...Olympian Kevin Miller is not a ringer for Michigan State...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Olympian Kevin Miller Sets the Record Straight | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Many assumed he'd be the ringer the Spartans needed to enter the NCAA Tournament. He has been a difference, but he certainly is not a ringer with a blank class schedule...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Olympian Kevin Miller Sets the Record Straight | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...when a phone rang in my dark, airless, and bitterly cold cubicle one day in the first week of January. Overwhelmed as it was by the whistle of the arctic gale forcing its way through fist-size holes in the plastic wrap covering my window, the sound of the ringer at first hardly reached me through the pile of soiled rags into which I had burrowed for warmth...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Good Morning San Francisco | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

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