Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, the 1998 Winter Olympics begin in Nagano, Japan. Like their predecessor, the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway, these Games brought drama and controversy to their site city well before the athletes themselves arrived for warm-ups and trials. However, unlike personal battles like the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan face-off that captivated the international press for months, the controversies surrounding Nagano are more impersonal and business-like. They highlight, if not the difference between East and West, then at least the difference in national styles and preferences that the Olympics always, perhaps unwillingly, bring into focus...
...earlier controversies--the downhill event, the charge card issue, the flame continually being extinguished during its run through southern Japan, even the recent leftist mortar shell attack at Narita International Airport--are but the pre-Olympic warm-up. As the world turns to Nagano today, Japan will face its largest test...
...most common excuse for staying clothed is the cold weather. But as any streaker will testify, the adrenaline flooding your veins will keep you warm. And for men who are afraid of the "shrinkage factor," induced by nerves as much as by the cold, just remember that it's happening to everybody else as well, and no one out there will notice...
...hours of examination determine the difference between medical school and academic probation, streaking is the ultimate affirmation of individual power. Against our fears of failure and the constraints of an institution to which we have traded our money and our well-being, we streakers assert our fleshy, warm-blooded freedom. From the roaring din and flapping flesh of the midnight hour, we conjure forth the revolutionary spirit, to remind ourselves that it still exists behind the redbrick walls of the ivory tower. Plus, everyone's naked, and that's big bonus...
...Jones case, now scheduled to start in May, to keep that scandal from dragging out any longer. Besides, even if Jones has a case, it's a hard one to prove; and were Clinton to emerge victorious from that trial, he could try to spin it into a big, warm blanket vindication. Then she decided that she would be the one to do the talking; she agreed to sit down for a Tuesday Today show interview. If she had lost faith in everyone else's ability to do damage control, she still had faith in her own. "They are digging...