Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diana takes Manhattan, and a bit of Brooklyn too, during a whirlwind royal visit (sans Prince Charles) that includes a night at the opera and a day with the homeless...
...when a girl playing a background orphan became ill. A producer saw her and decided she was right for the part. At age 10, her career was underway. Four years later, Salenger landed her first starring role in Natty Gann. Since that time, she says she has maintained a whirlwind schedule...
...this week's long jump, she paused only to smile. "I'm blessed," she said. "You just don't know. To be able to reach for something you've been striving for for a long time. I feel good." Showing twice as much leg as usual, the whirlwind Florence Griffith Joyner won her 100, and if she missed her record she hardly cared. History's hurdler, Edwin Moses, turned over the stage to a tearful Andre Phillips and left the world to marvel at his last twelve years...
Faced with such competition and hard work, freshmen may find it hard to make time to play and develop the friendships that are supposed to last through the 50th reunion. "It's a whirlwind," says Pamela Haber, a University of Michigan sophomore. "You make friends, you drop them." Many find that having an entirely new pool of classmates is a greatly liberating experience. Hated nicknames are finally shed, new affectations can be tried on and discarded. "Nobody has to know that you were shy in high school," says Veronica Lawson, 18, a Rhodes sophomore who counsels freshmen. "I tell freshmen...
...death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society would be led down the ((democratic)) path not by our party but by some other political force, which would emerge from the people in the whirlwind of crisis...