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...writers and researchers worked on the stories back in New York City, art director Rudy Hoglund and deputy director Arthur Hochstein, who designed the layouts for the entire package, faced a difficult problem: how to create a strikingly original cover image. Their solution was to approach Christo, the famed Bulgarian-born environmental sculptor. In earlier works Christo had draped in plastic large sections of the earth -- a stretch of Australian coast, a canyon in Colorado -- but never the whole planet. This time Christo bundled a 16-in. globe in polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than 350 miles...
Score one for mystery. Score two, in fact: one for each volume of Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares. (Or, The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices to you, Rambo.) In 1987 the weirdest album to appear on the reliably eccentric British pop charts was the first volume of folk music recorded by this choir of two dozen Bulgarian women. Journals recorded approving, indeed awed, comments from the likes of George Harrison. The group caught on, and a record that had roughly the commercial potential of Botha: Live in the Transvaal! became a surprise hit. Released in America by Elektra/Nonesuch, the record...
...cannot, therefore, catch the lovely mayhem of gymnastics, the dizzying lyricism of a four-square circus in which everything is happening at once: a Japanese girl running furiously toward the | vault, even as an East German prances through her floor exercises, a Guatemalan teeters on the balance beam, a Bulgarian attacks the parallel bars. The first time one sees a gymnast leap, one's heart flies with...
...jumper broke her ankle, for example, the day after she made the 1980 Olympic team. She also had a reputation for choking at big meets, placing only eighth in Los Angeles. But in Seoul it was Kostadinova who choked. Asked if she was happy with her effort, the Bulgarian snapped, "I am not satisfied. I can set the world record." Maybe next time...
Diuretics are yet another group of forbidden drugs. The Bulgarian weight- lifting team was withdrawn from Seoul after two of its medalists tested positive for the diuretic furosemide. By flushing water from the body, these drugs help athletes reduce weight to compete in a particular class. They are also useful as masking agents, since along with the water, evidence of other drug use is eliminated...