Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presents a gallery of fascinating characters. The vengeful Governor, Antonio de Souza de Menendez, has a prosthetic arm made of solid silver and is painfully self-conscious of his gruesome looks...
Miranda's book may be uneven, but any novel with a silver-armed villain who suffers from an inferiority complex, an ecclesiastical hero driven by lust and armed with Gongora and a rapier tongue and set in a city where the whores exert the most influence--is irresistible...
...mortified over Ulvang's Greenland trek as they had been the previous year when he climbed Alaska's 20,320-ft. Denali, the former Mount McKinley. But not even the most timorous Norwegian trainer is complaining now. Ulvang and his teammate Bjorn Daehlie each won three golds and a silver, leading the national team to 20 medals, a phenomenal haul in light of Norway's population of only 4.2 million. Ulvang's four-medal streak sparked such jubilation in his Arctic hometown of Kirkenes that the local stock of champagne...
Yamaguchi withstood a strong challenge from Japan's Midori Ito, who lifted the crowd as she courageously hurtled her way to a silver medal after placing a disappointing fourth in the original program. The most famous athlete in her country, Ito had earlier seemed almost crushed by the weight of her flag and the expectations back home. The bronze went to Nancy Kerrigan of Stoneham, Mass., an elegant, imperturbable skater who made a characteristic decision to scale back her jumps in her long program...
...most innovative skating of the Olympics came in the earlier ice-dancing competition. The Unified Team's Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko took the gold decisively with a bold, sexy program, while France's celebrity couple, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, were somewhat off form and had to settle for silver. Maia Usova and Alexander Zhulin, also from the Unified Team, skated lightly and impudently to the bronze...