Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JOHN KERRY (D., Mass.), above left --Mirror with framed Kerry wedding announcement from Mr. and Mrs. A. Schwarzenegger --Porcelain watermelon wedding gift --Silver collar for red wine --Antique ketchup and soy bottles...
...list with St. Peter's Square, Union Square, Red Square, Trafalgar Square and Times Square; another ("World Class City. World Class Shopping") boasts sweeping staircases and wooden elevators, polished brass and a concierge to direct you to Nail Elite and Hair Artisans, the Civilized Traveller and the Silver Spoon Cafe. It must be said, however, that the same Buckhead hotel that enforces a dress code (jackets are "preferred" for men, even at breakfast) is the place where my $16 Payless shoes were stolen from the corridor...
Whenever Shaquille O'Neal, Scottie Pippen, John Stockton and Co. play, it will look like the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals. There is no way that this N.B.A. All-Star team will lose a game or even a night's sleep. The battle for the silver will also feature N.B.A. stars: Vlade Divac of Yugoslavia, Arvydis Sabonis of Lithuania and Toni Kukoc of Croatia...
...stunned and teary. "I felt awful," she says now."I was supposed to win. I let everyone down." A few days later she won the 800-m free in unexciting time and so left Barcelona with what almost every other athlete there would have rejoiced to own: one silver medal and another gold to go with the three from Seoul. But she was depressed and ashamed, and she quit swimming...
Aileen made the Olympic diving and swimming teams for the '24 Games in Paris, and she came away with two more medals, a silver medal in the springboard and a bronze in the 100-m backstroke. (She still has medal certificates signed personally by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.) Those were the Games later dramatized in Chariots of Fire, a movie to which Aileen takes great exception. "They did a grave injustice to Charley Paddock, the sprinter who became a dear friend. They portrayed him as a skinny fellow of few words. Why, he was powerfully built, and he could talk...