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Olga. Nadia. Mary Lou. Their first names alone are the way we remember them, the last names seemingly too tedious and weighty for ones so petite. Olga Korbut was the scrawny, pig-tailed brunet at the 1972 Munich Games who, with her double-jointed contortions and infectious grin, convinced us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Sprite Fight | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Bearded and brooding in appearance, the Texas-born Wright often looks like a villain in a Jacobean tragedy. He has directed on Broadway (Pvt. Wars), off- Broadway (Vanities), and at regional stages in Washington, Dallas, Denver and . Seattle. In style and choice of plays, he suggests no major break with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Heartland Heartiness | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Little wonder, then, that Dole has a dark side and that Bush, with his perky optimism, tends to bring it out. Dole has tried to suppress his brooding bitterness following his hatchet-man performance as the vice-presidential Republican candidate in the 1976 campaign. Since then, he has gone through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Bush faces a far different challenge: overcoming the impression that he has never been truly tested, that he knows little about the earthy struggles of daily living and that he has been sheltered from life's hard knocks. Where Dole projects a brooding quality, Bush sometimes exudes a disconcerting shallowness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

And the U.S. skiers? Looking at so-so from the underside, as expected. Buried chin-deep in drifts of analysis. There was little need for brooding after the glorious Sarajevo Games, when Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper won their gold and silver in the giant slalom, Phil and Steve Mahre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Skiing: Three, Two, One . . . Airborne! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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