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Sumners' performances are sweet and sculptural. In her trademark maneuver, she follows a kind of swooping, swanlike glide with the difficult IVi airborne spins of a double axel. Some fellow Olympic team members are concerned, however, that the sheltered teenager has not mastered the inner game of figure skating. Says one: "I really wonder if she's got the emotional strength to be what she wants to be." The determinedly upbeat Hamilton points to the difficulty of withstanding the pressure at the top. "She has the physical capabilities," he says, "but emotionally it's very, very difficult...
...often gloss over the news and publish the analysis. The conservative Kohl has powerful allies: the nationally distributed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (circ. 332,000), probably the country's most influential daily and all but certainly its weightiest; Die Welt (circ. 210,000), the intellectual flagship of Press Lord Axel Springer's chain, and perhaps the most ardently pro-American, pro-Israeli and anti-Soviet publication in West Germany; Springer's giant Bild Zeitung (circ. 5 million), a sensationalized daily featuring bare-breasted pinups and imaginative stories of sex scandals that nonetheless enjoys unexcelled access to politicians because...
Wilson plotted a direct path to prominence. The privileged and provincial son of a Red Bank, N.J., lawyer, he saw that a career in literary journalism rather than academic criticism would lead him to the power he desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before...
...DIED. Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell, 79, biochemist and winner of a 1955 Nobel Prize for his discoveries about enzymes and their role in helping the body's cells to use oxygen; of heart disease; in Stockholm. Crippled by polio as a young man, he abandoned his plan to practice medicine and went into research instead...
Bret has established ten Croissanteries and plans to open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...