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...wife Terry, who was much more comfortable on their horse farm, is on a treadmill when Jesse gets there. She tells him how to kick-start the other one, whose dashboard rivals the space shuttle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...Jesse was a brawling-type, punch-and-kick kind of guy, and he had this big flying elbow drop," says wrestler Lawler, the man who nearly broke comedian Andy Kaufman's neck with a pile driver. Now that politics and pro wrestling have melded, Lawler is contemplating a run for mayor of Memphis, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...upon the hermeneutics of chalktalk pundits and initiate pro football in a richer obscurantism. The thoughtful spectator will see the players as nodes through which institutionalized power relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructionist at the Super Bowl | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...knew it. Only work interrupts her constant vigil. There are no nights off from tending to John since she can't afford the $125-a-day fee for what has come to be known as respite care. Day care alone now comes to $700 a month. "I could kick myself for not taking out the insurance," she says. "But I had no idea we'd be facing this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help for Life's Long Night | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the Falcons are in because the Vikings did something they hadn't done all season: Miss a field goal. Gary Anderson, who had not missed any kind of kick all season, was wide left the kick that probably would have won the game. The Falcons tied, and then won 30-27 in overtime. The big loser: Danish TV, for which Falcons kicker Morten Andersen normally covers Super Bowls. This year, he's going to be busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broncos and Falcons are In | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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