Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, the time may have come, sisters, to cut Bill Clinton loose. It could still turn out, of course, that the whole thing was completely innocent, and that Bill was using those late-night visits to tutor Monica Lewinsky on the intricacies of Social Security financing and line-item budgeting. And it may well be, as Kathleen Parker observed in USA Today, that the alleged objects of the President's affections are not exactly feminist role models but "our worst stereotypes incarnate: emotional, back-stabbing, duplicitous, manipulative...
...Clintonites the anecdote is self-serving, but it tracks the President's astounding ability to wall off parts of his life and focus intently on the job at hand. The performance in the Cabinet Room speaks as well to a growing worry: Will the President manage to turn his gaze overseas often enough to protect U.S. national interests? Nervous foreign governments are wondering how much clout the leader of the free world can still wield, and how fast it might drain away in the bloodletting over Interngate. As Administration officials tell it, the scandal posed no problem. And to make...
...which usually take place in the same rink. Once the competition begins, all skaters stretch in the same area backstage, as the public-address system booms their rivals' scores throughout the arena. As many as 40 min. can elapse between an on-ice warmup and a contestant's solo turn to compete. Some skaters plug in earphones, listening to whatever relaxes them, drowning out their bothers. (Lipinski tunes in to peppy dance mixes.) Kwan closes her eyes and visualizes herself skating a perfect program...
That fierce self-assessment, with its apparent reference to Kwan's spectacular fall last year, is magnified by Lipinski's appearance. There is a moment during every competition when the audience is reminded of just how young--and tiny--Lipinski really is. Just before it's her turn on the ice, as she waits for her name to be called, she skates around with the flower girls. She carves small circles around them, head down, eyes focused, concentrating on the program she is about to perform. At 4 ft. 10 in. and 80 lbs., with her hair pulled back...
...through the air at about 70 m.p.h., that she started planning for her comeback. She had been streaking along on a training run at Vail, Colo., when she encountered a smooth spot where a speed bump had always been. "So I didn't have to make some real crappy turn like we usually do up there. I carved a fatty," she says with some admiration for the slingshot turn that blew her off the fast track to Olympic gold. "That's when I decided, when I saw where I was going to hit, that the potential for me to blow...