Word: winners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time they ran was phenomenal," said junior Margaret Schotte, the 3000-meter winner. "Just looking at that, if they can run that well after a week of hard training, the relay is going to be fantastic for the rest of the year...
...could accuse Yusef Komunyakaa, 50, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into...
Your 75th-anniversary edition was a winner. On long, dark, lonely nights around Phu Cat air base in Quen Yan, South Vietnam, in 1968, my friend--along with my M-16 rifle--was my closest companion. Today if I leave the house without my friend, I feel I have forgotten something. I'm sure you know that friend is TIME. FRED KING East Northport...
...other big winner was "As Good As It Gets," whose unlikely romantic coupling of Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson got a lock on best actor and actress. "Good Will Hunting" picked up some well-deserved gongs: best supporting actor for Robin Williams, a long overdue first win, and best screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the freshest faces in town. The biggest loser? It had to be the Awards' director, who, despite draconian efforts to keep speeches to a minimum, watched in agony as the ceremony overran by an hour. Some might say precisely the same of "Titanic...
...Vibe, with a hip tone, stylish graphics and hide-and-seek typefaces. A section up front offers quirky tidbits like a chart showing an odd correlation between the number of letters in the names of each year's NCAA men's basketball champion and Best New Artist Grammy Award winner. (You cared, right?) There's news as well: the magazine uncovers a scoring error from earlier this season that means University of Connecticut star Nykesha Sales, awarded a controversial two-point gimme shot last month, is still short of the school record. And its well-written feature stories include...