Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition will be remembered as the final showdown in a battle that has set the Brians blade to blade since 1978, the pairs event will live as the moment when the world gave its heart to a tiny wisp of a girl named Katya. Not quite 5 ft. and not quite 90 lbs., Ekaterina Gordeeva was not quite like anyone else in the Saddledome. Fragile, with a smile that comes from over the rainbow, Katya has the gift of making her audience happy. Part of her secret may be that glorious smile. She has superb technique based on first-rate...
...trade up from dreary materialism to exhilarating activism. "The cynics believe that my generation has forgotten," he says in one of his stump speeches. "They believe that the ideals and compassion and conviction to change the world that marked our youth is now nothing but a long-faded wisp of adolescence . . . But they have misjudged us." By no coincidence, the group that he implores "to put our own stamp on the face and character of America, to bend history just a bit" makes up an estimated 58% of next year's eligible voters...
Once again, nothing happened. North, it seems, lost Perot's money chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. He had authority, however; North's boss Robert McFarlane says President Reagan approved the first hostage-rescue plan, and Reagan has a dim recollection of some such conversation -- though he insists that he "never thought of that as ransom." Only garbled portions of the story have become public, but Republican Senator Paul Trible of Virginia, who has been looking into the affair, and Government officials involved helped TIME piece together this account...
...tournament drug-testing procedure inaugurated by the N.C.A.A. this year, a painstaking postgame process that forgot to allow for dehydrated athletes. Coach Norm Sloan of Florida, fearing passive contamination, packed up the whole team and fled a Syracuse Holiday Inn when one of the Gators thought he detected a wisp of marijuana smoke curling out of the room next door...
...Nations is threatening to sue ABC for "misuse" of its logo only lends legitimacy to the network's racist tripe. The shrill indignation of the show's critics has the same effect. Post-episode forums on the show's "significance," which draw on "experts" whose expertise is just a wisp below the Phil Donahue standard, don't help either...