Word: tonya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoker circuit. The explosion of VCRs coincided with the release of videotaped versions of such porno classics as Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door. Sales of video cameras didn't explode just because people wanted to tape their holiday celebrations and stupid pet tricks. As Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly recently reaffirmed, lots of videotape is recorded in bedrooms...
...Olympics, with its melodramatic, widely followed confrontation between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, changed the sport dramatically. TV suddenly woke up to skating's telegenic grace, and the number of staged competitions-produced primarily for TV and lacking the strict rules that have governed amateur meets in the past-has multiplied. As a result, young skating stars today must not only beat back competition from the amateur ranks. They must also confront a new kind of rival: the pro skater. The stars who emerged from the past two Olympics have not faded into the half-life of touring ice shows...
...Pete Rose, Mike Tyson or O.J. Simpson role models? Only if the role is on a TV mini-series. The list of troubled sports stars goes on and on. Tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati's substance abuse. Incorrigible rebounder Dennis Rodman's hairstyling and discipline problems. And, of course, Tonya Harding. It all makes you wonder if there is any hope for sports heroism...
...with TV documentaries and books their detonators of choice. In Los Angeles two separate juries could not agree on a verdict in the trials of Lyle and Erik Menendez, young men who admitted killing their parents, at close range, with shotguns. The nightly news became a saraband of sleaze: Tonya, Lorena, Michael, O.J.; after 10 days of claiming to have been the victim of a carjacking, a South Carolina mother confessed she pushed the vehicle into a lake with her two tiny sons strapped inside...
...Tonya Harding...