Word: swam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except in her music. Her first album, Toni Braxton, produced by R.-and-B. hitmakers Antonio ("L.A.") Reid and Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, swam against the tide. While other R.-and-B. singers were getting louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend...
Controversy boiled up. Evans, who swam against a notoriously drug-aided East German team, is a straight-arrow in the matter of performance-enhancing substances. When the U.S. authorities refused to ban 15-year-old freestyler Jessica Foschi, who had tested positive for a steroid, Evans objected that the team was throwing away its moral right to object, for instance, to drug use by the Chinese. And then a pint-size, cheeky 15-year-old named Brooke Bennett, who reminded some people of a younger Janet Evans (and who beat Evans soundly in the 400 free in May 1995), began...
...since the Seoul Olympics, in 1988. She was a high school junior then, slightly built, 5 ft. 5 1/2 in., just turned 17. She did not own a driver's license, though she held world freestyle records in the 400-m, 800-m and 1,500-m distances. She swam with a strange, windmilling, stiff-armed stroke. "It's not one you would teach," says Mark Schubert of U.S.C., her coach these days, "but only an idiot would have tried to change...
Some silent stars, like Buster Keaton, swam outside the Hollywood mainstream. Fairbanks, though, was Hollywood--in his itch for control (he produced his films and wrote most of them), in his loving to be loved, in his taste for pricey grandeur. He ordered the biggest sets (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood), the highest budgets (The Thief of Bagdad), the first epic film shot wholly in Technicolor (The Black Pirate). At times this largeness slowed the films' pace; you wait an hour for the stunts and the fun to kick...
...addition, Steffen swam her way to 14th with 40.5 points, Iwahara won the 50-yard freestyle, and junior Kara Miller won the 1-meter dive and placed third in the 3-meter...