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...Paganini, or maybe the Jimi Hendrix, of the five-string banjo recalls the first time he heard that instrument. "I was four or five years old," says Bela Fleck. "My brother and I were on my grandparents' bed watching TV when The Beverly Hillbillies came on. The theme music started, and I had no idea it was the banjo. It was Earl Scruggs in his prime. I only remember hearing something beautiful. It called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: He's Finger-Pickin' Good | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...probably read the Bram Stoker original. You've probably heard Bela Lugosi say, "I never drink...wine." You've probably put on the play yourself in junior high school. But what other Harvard show offers a performance on Monday--Halloween night itself? Fangs for the memories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...proved to be the Mickey Mouse that roared. As a direct consequence of the deduction, the U.S. team finished fourth instead of third, trailing the East Germans by a heart-sickening 0.3 of a point. "It's a dirty maneuver," fumed U.S. coach Bela Karolyi, who also charged that the East Germans had received unfairly high scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High And the Sprightly | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...Berger, a pin-eyed East German with the soul of Leo Durocher, detected a U.S. irregularity involving the bat boy. Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble with the other dolls at the trick knee of the Rumanian defector Bela Karolyi. When she missed making the Olympic team by 0.1 point, he brought her along as a roustabout. Docked 0.5 points for Faehn's harmless presence on the platform, the U.S. women lost the bronze medal to the G.D.R. by 0.3 points. In his understated way, Karolyi expressed how they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners All! | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...past year, Greg Marsden and Don Peters each resigned as women's team coach after feuding with, among others, Bela Karolyi, Mary Lou Retton's coach. The women's team will not have a head coach in Seoul. U.S. prosecutors even reviewed alleged financial improprieties at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Said Peters: "I wish it would all go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Gym Shorts: Oops and Out For the U.S. | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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