Word: revelation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your comrades are off to a beautiful start. Legs pumping, chest heaving, wind racing through your hair, you revel in the energy. This is the best track you've been on yet, and the other runners are the best you've seen. As you lean into the curve, you pass the crumpled bodies of veterans and tell yourself they must not have felt like you do now. If they did, they'd still be running...
...future of baseball rests in the hands of a few powerful men. If the owners of baseball's few profitable franchises push for a salary cap, the small market teams can be saved. But, if men such as George Steinbrenner continue to revel in their ability to throw millions at top players of teams who can't afford to pay them, then salaries will continue to spiral upward and small market teams will be forced out. Someone should tell Mr. Steinbrenner and his cronies that assembling an invincible team is no fun when there is no one left to play...
Harvard-Yale weekend is traditionally "an event" because it allows students to revel in collegiate life for a weekend and to see why the Ivy League universities are known as the best academic institutions in the nation. This year the sense of adventure was lacking--in part because the Ivy League was caught up in making history...
...goes back to the desire to nest, to revel in the comforts of home--priorities that have come to define the 1990s. And it's why coffeemakers that automatically grind the beans before brewing will get more attention this year than they have in the past. Our standards are higher, and we're ready to upgrade. The result is a kitchen that's more Jetsons than Julia Child...
...Yorkers have never been more bored with politics. Love him or hate him (and indeed, most New Yorkers revel in doing one or the other), Mayor Giuliani has succeeded: he has transformed New York City from a dysfunctional mess into a community worthy of emulation. Indeed, the consensus among public policy analysts seems to be that Giuliani's program should be diligently studied as a "how-to guide" for urban renewal. To make matters worse for those who enjoy a good political brawl, the Mayor's opponent, Ruth W. Messinger '62, seems to give new meaning to the word "colorless...