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...m.p.h., Lewis now starts a precisely measured 167 ft. 6 in. behind the takeoff board, farther than any competitor. Forward velocity-not height-makes for distance, believes Tellez, and Lewis defies gravity by continuing to run almost straight off into the air, pedaling furiously for balance, not unlike Wile E. Coyote going off a cliff in a Road Runner cartoon. "It's my best attribute," he says. "In basketball I could hang up there and triple pump." As a sprinter, he also has uncanny staying power. "Everybody," he says, "decelerates from about 60 meters to the finish line-everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Only a Tick Away from L.A. | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...anyone injected has wile with insulin it was Martha Von Bulim herself," Dershowitz said in an interview earlier this week...

Author: By Marns F. Cohen, | Title: Dershowitz to Argue Von Bulow Appeal | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Karol ("Ken") Harris, 83, Hollywood cartoonist who helped create such lunatic movie characters as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and his nemesis, the Road Runner; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Harris also helped design the animation for the Pink Panther movie series and the film The Phantom Tollbooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...rule, attempt to discuss ideological ecology with a man throwing rocks at a rattlesnake. In the ranchers' world, there are still good guys and bad guys in an older sense. Mesquite tends to be a bad guy. The rancher enjoys with his mesquite roughly the relationship that Wile E. Coyote maintains with the Road Runner in the children's cartoon; the rancher will try anything short of nuclear weapons to conquer mesquite. He even talks about it in vaguely military terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Thayer's wile, Ethel--Norman and Ethel, now there's a pair of old folk's names--is utterly sunny. As Ethel. Hepburn, is a sort of superannuated dryad, prancing in the woods, picking berries, skinny-dipping and crooning paeans to nature. By no means an airhead. Ethel happily flips the birdie at a passing motor cruiser that ploughs by the Thayers' canoe. Moreover, she knows Norman is not the crotchety old coot he appears. Rather, he is a wonderfully warm fellow who happens to be obsessed with death. Norman and Ethel are, of course, very much in love...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

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