Word: tonya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over everything has loomed the sorry spectacle of Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results...
...chilly tale is still unfolding, but that hasn't stopped publishers from competing in an Olympian race to make quickie books -- and bucks -- from the saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. No fewer than six paperbacks have been zooming to press: four on the presumed heroine (sample title: The Kerrigan Courage) and two on the suspected villainess (Thin Ice). None have the cooperation of their subjects, and most will be in bookstores well before closing ceremonies in Lillehammer...
...That's Tonya Harding speaking on Inside Edition, and praise be the gods of Olympus, Harding will get at least within hugging range of her rival and alleged victim, Nancy Kerrigan. This is not because Harding shouldn't be punished. If she participated in the plot to injure Kerrigan, neither underdog sympathy nor childhood deprivation, an excessive supply of stepfathers, failure to snag endorsement contracts or other bad breaks in life should keep her from being tried and serving time...
...clubbing provides the same gritty realism that the Zapruder footage brought to Oliver Stone's JFK. The blow-by- blow of the investigation, the arrests, the confessions, the plea bargains -- it's all in the can. There was even a play within a play when stakeout cameras captured Tonya saving her illegally parked pickup from a tow truck. The most hardened Tonya detractor must have momentarily rooted...
...order to avoid working on his senior thesis on the philosophical foundations of punishment in modern democratic theory, Jesse M. Furman '94 says he allowed the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan skating drama to captivate his attention...