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With all of this going on in her life, it is easy to understand how roommate and fellow thrower Mara Bevermate describes...

Author: By Jason Gross, | Title: An Ordinary Day at the Track | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...when a 6-ft., 1-in. thrower tears a room apart, she really tears it apart...

Author: By Jason Gross, | Title: An Ordinary Day at the Track | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...both contests the lesson was the same: it's fun to be a bomb thrower until the bomb blows up in your face. Texas Republican Clayton Williams squandered his lead over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: Governors | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...second album, No Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said I was"); his early years with music ("Stunk at everything I did. Music was the one thing I felt proud of"); his first encounter with Sandy Mahl, whom he would marry in 1986 (Brooks was a bouncer in a club. She threw a punch that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country Classicists | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...consider him to be a progressive Republican. He is highly intelligent. He is hands-on. He's not a bomb thrower, but because he isn't a bomb thrower he doesn't have any interceptions. That's one of the reasons he's doing as well as he has. Bush -- I ought to leave it in football terms -- he's the Joe Montana. The short, sure pass. He has a very high percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Richard Nixon: Paying The Price | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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