Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years later, a compromise was reached. The cow now sits on a stone pedastal in nearby Five Point Park...
...supermarket tabloids don't usually pay much attention to politics--they have their hands full chronicling Sharon Stone's love life and following Madonna around with a camera--but when they do, they make it count. In 1987 the National Enquirer printed a photo of Donna Rice sitting on Gary Hart's lap, creating the most infamous visual epitaph for his crashed political career. Four years ago, the Star ran a story on Gennifer Flowers' alleged affair with Bill Clinton, throwing a major scare into his campaign just before the New Hampshire primary. And last week it was the Star...
...Florida. With three holes remaining, he was still two down. He birdied 16 and 17 to square the match and then beat Scott on the second extra hole. Victory in golf is often the result of an opponent's failure. In the amateur, however, it was Woods' own stone-cold determination and excellence that produced the unprecedented victory...
...smacked on the nose with a newspaper by his wife. This is the oldest story: sex and politics, powerful men doing stupid, squalid things. No harm done, except to Morris and family. Morris' wife said in an interview with TIME, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Of course most of us do not manage to sin as colorfully as Dick Morris apparently...
Translator Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading (Viking; 372 pages; $26.95) is an impressionistic, engrossing look at what books have meant to people since the first inscriptions of signs on stone nearly 6,000 years ago. No one who follows Manguel's narrative to its conclusion need ever again feel guilty about putting off errands, chores, the bills, the kids, sleep--whatever--and curling up with a good, or even a great, book...