Word: zens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reinsdorf, vice president and chairman of the team--present TIM FLOYD, a college coach and fishing buddy of Krause's with no NBA experience, not as the new coach but as the director of basketball operations. This means that Phil Jackson could theoretically come back and perform his Zen magic on the Bulls. If he comes back, so will Michael Jordan, who has vowed never to work for "Pink," as he calls Floyd. If Jordan comes back, Scottie Pippen might too. However, Jackson has made it pretty clear that he won't come back. Maybe the Jerrys just want Jordan...
Through maturity and Jackson's required Zen meditation sessions, Jordan has bottled his frenzy, turned it into intensity and shared it with his teammates. Ex-Bull B.J. Armstrong, whom Jordan never fully embraced, said Jordan showed him how to win. "He has passion. And you have to have that same passion, that same will, to beat him," he says. "He prepares himself in a way that no one will understand because I don't think too many people are willing to pay that price...
...broaden the context: never rise to a provocation, especially on that subject. Do not! Turn aside temptation. Go deeply Zen. Repeat a mantra. Think of Rhett Butler at Ashley Wilkes' place early in Gone With the Wind, when he confronts the naive Southern glory-talk. Clark Gable bows slightly and ironically and works his mouth in that sly, urbane way, saying, with a tricky formality of self-effacement, "I apologize for all my shortcomings...
...these days Johnny seems a force of nature and to quote ESPN, we cannot stop him, we only hope to contain him. As Johnny starts talking and the sound of his voice fills the room, the time goes by with an almost Zen-like ease. His soliloquy has a soothing quality and soon our thoughts begin to wander: "I really should get going on my dissertation. If only I could find an invaluable primary source in my grandmother's attic. I wonder if my advisor loves me? For that matter, I wonder if any one really loves me?...Just when...
With the fitness boom of the 1980s, healthy living became associated with noticeable muscles and no-pain, no-gain workouts. But if anything ever represented the Zen '90s, it's Pilates and the less-is-more body. "I used to look like Sylvester Stallone. People stared," clucks actress Sonia Braga, who's now keeping company with Pilates devotees like Madonna, Vanessa Williams and Sharon Stone. "What Pilates does is strengthen and elongate." Practitioners claim they double-cross genetics, getting fabulous bodies and feeling better with whiz-bang workouts that fit their hectic schedules. The number of Pilates studios has grown...