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...gorge like a gunshot, and McGuire is soaring, carving S turns into the air, swooping over a winding creek. When he lands, he is a speck on a path along the creek. He hurriedly packs his chute and then, clearly audible above the rushing water, lets out a war whoop that rises past those mortals still perched on the dam, past the commuters puttering by on the roadway, past even the hawks who circle the ravine. It is a cry of defiance, thanks and victory; he has survived another BASE jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Life On The Edge | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...most of us. Those nice accountants at Deloitte & Touche calculate that a couple with two children under 17 and an income of $50,000 -? that?s about average -- would receive an annual tax cut of $265. One car payment, maybe. As the late, great Chris Farley used to say, whoop-de-freakin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I could use the money. So could you. Why a big tax cut still isn't such a great idea | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...directorial career, maybe this is a quirky suicide note. For the actors, it's no big whoop. Young stars need to be in at least one dumb ugly movie like this one. Next year it'll make a cute-embarrassing story to tell Jay Leno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Atti-Toon | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Every team hopes to have that game going into a big tournament--the game where everything clicks, the team gels, kicks it into a higher gear, brings everything together, opens the proverbial can of whoop...

Author: By Haley Steele, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Water Polo Hunts Down Eagles | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...WHOOP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 9, 1998 | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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