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It's a very simple holiday, really. With fireworks, picnics and big bands, it's cheaper than Christmas, better for your diet than Thanksgiving, and it's easier on your lazy summer schedule than Easter because there's no sense in having a sunrise fireworks service. I suppose the Fourth...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Importance of a Simple Holiday | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

Although Rice's sentimental writing wouldn't get past a sports editor nowadays, we could still use it every once in a while. Instead of those Ail Jordan puns the other day, we might have got one of Rice's verses:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIKE, AND THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF SPORT | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Latham tells his "true story of true love" in deliberate, prairie-flat language, strewing the landscape here and there with verbal posies and perhaps a few too many quotations from 17th century romantic poetry. Still, the style is right for what is, after all, the sentimental chronicle of two endearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FATHER'S DAY | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Sentimental love stories, of course, do not end that way. Gussie stays to marry Clyde, for whom a fond son has written what is surely the mother of all Father's Day presents.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FATHER'S DAY | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

With that, Baffert wiped at his watery eyes and blew his nose. Sentimental? No, actually he's allergic to hay and horses; always has been. That's just one of the anomalies on Baffert's past-performance chart. He grew up on the family ranch in Nogales, Ariz., rode quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HI HO SILVER CHARM | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

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