Word: magic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to observe the beauty around me here, I opened up to the locals--and they opened up to me. Their low-pitched, gravely pronunciation, in sharp contrast to my Parisian accent with a hint of a Belgian twang, began to sound less foreign. And they taught me the magic of the Tour--an event the size of a small village that thunders through their region each year leaving crowds of fans, discarded tents and straggling journalists in its wake...
...much as of a crusade. The U.S. women were good, they were good looking, and they were on a mission to prove that women's team sports, and soccer in particular, deserve the same kind of attention, admiration and money that the guys' get. "I grew up watching Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, men I could never emulate," says Julie Foudy, the thoughtful, funny midfielder who leads the team in quotes. "Girls need role models." The goal of Women's World Cup is no less than the establishment of a women's professional league to create those role models...
Like a Hollywood producer who has discovered a new starlet, Bronson is so fixated on the valley's magic that the greed, disillusionment and boredom that are just as much a part of the picture rarely come into focus. The only thing that seems to bother him is the vacant landscape. But what about the worker bees who assemble electronic components for subminimum wages on their cramped living-room floors? And how long can any but a handful of key players in a chaotic start-up sustain their contact highs? If Bronson had dared to bare all, then The Nudist...
...this summer I'm trying to recapture the magic. Much like an alcoholic trying to go dry, its a tough climb. The siren's song of the television still calls--sometimes I ignore it, sometimes...
...Donnelly is whiling away the last moments before a soccer clinic. Dad Pat has driven her there, of course. He watches as Kelly spends a minute or so keeping a soccer ball suspended by bouncing it lightly off her knees, in a kind of airborne dribble--a bit of magic that only the rarest adult could pull...