Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to drop people on their head for a living, and is now doing the same to the two-party system, puts on a pair of lime green Lycra shorts, a white T shirt and some New Balance sneakers. He still doesn't know what's behind every door of the sprawling three-story Governor's manse with the four-room kitchen, but he knows the gym is somewhere upstairs...
Sitting at a large conference table, disguised in a button-down shirt and wool pants, his game scowl gone, he doesn't look like that robot. He looks almost unintimidating, like the metarational man he's become. "The one thing I've learned is the mind controls everything," he says. "Your mind can throw the attention off to the side." Tony LaRussa, his manager at both the A's and the Cardinals, says McGwire has a unique ability to "control his emotions, to stifle them." His best friend on the team, catcher Tom Lampkin, says McGwire "has such control...
...cigarettes, I learned to speak again, with much work. When I retired from teaching, I began to visit schools and speak to kids about not smoking. My message was, "Nobody told me, but I'm telling you: Look what tobacco did to me." Then I'd whip open my shirt and show the hole in my neck. That's when I know I'm getting through to them. The shock of what cancer can do is the real thing. BILL MOSS Miami
Nixon was always a remote figure. I rarely saw him without a staff member or a big desk or a white shirt and tie between us. The real Nixon was a tortured man in so many ways, fearful of not looking right or being untidy in his habits. He was just plain uncoordinated and floppy. His smiles and frowns were sometimes not in synch with his words. I recall a treaty-signing ceremony in the Kremlin in which Nixon was momentarily the lone American participant on the stage. He seemed utterly perplexed about what to do with his feet...
...backs, University of Texas senior Ricky Williams broke Tony Dorsett's 22-year-old record for career college rushing yards. Since Williams has dreadlocks, a nose ring and a pierced tongue, plus a refreshing measure of humility, odds are his name is going to be on your kid's shirt this time next year...