Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lean into the curve, you notice people with stopwatches ahead. It's much too early to pass the baton, and you didn't ever remember someone being on the track to get your split time. As you near the accountants of time, you see frowns upon their shaking heads. You wonder what could be wrong, but you keep running. As you pass the accountants, they yell to you, "Not good enough!" Fallen veterans on the field wave fingers of "I told you so," and your own confidence slackens. Your quadriceps begin that low burning feeling and then you notice that...
...Army had been streaming into the city for a month, brutalizing Hungary's October revolution. The foggy nights, filled all fall with the sounds of ecstatic students, were now split with the jostle of machinery--10 divisions of Soviet tanks--and the uneven light of Molotov cocktails thrown through the rain. Fear blossomed in the dampness. The Premier vanished...
...before her, a boy who had lived barely 10 hours. If he had survived, she often wondered, would she have existed? Or would her mother, having produced a male heir, have left her husband for another man earlier than she did, before Diana could be born? After her parents split up, Diana bravely declared that she would marry only once, and only for love, and never, ever divorce...
...Book For a film about sexual, romantic and literary obsessions, in which a Japanese woman literally inscribes the book of love across the bodies of men, director Peter Greenaway and his production designers, Wilbert van Dorp and Andree Putman, provide the ultimate in layered looks. Japanese calligraphy cascades down split screens; inserts open within larger images like windows on a computer screen. The visual stringencies of old Japan meet the clutter of the global village. In a word: fascinating...
DIED. TAMARA GEVA, 91, witty Russian ballerina-actress; in New York City. Geva, just shy of 16, married the choreographer George Balanchine, becoming, as her autobiography Split Seconds put it, "the first Galatea to his Pygmalion." She set aside dancing in the '30s to act and later starred in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance...