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...page by page. Page 1: a close-up shot of a youthful-looking Hart in a coat and tie speaking directly into the camera. "The politicians of yesterday are trading our future by asking our price instead of challenging our idealism." Page 2: Hart framed from fore head to chin by the television screen. "My candidacy is for those who still dream dreams . . . who will stand together once more to build an American future." Intones an unseen narrator: "Gary Hart ... a new generation of leadership...
Newcomers, on the other hand, must wait their turn with a patience that tries both talent and dreams. The top rank is tough to crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures...
Ironically, another American benefited by the couple's misfortunes. Two nights later, a different Italian judge appeared to make amends by leaping .3 of a point above the rest of the judges in her marks for Tiffany Chin in the women's short program. But then, two can play that game: the American judge bottomed out an Italian skater's average and, more egregiously, placed Katarina Witt, who won the short program with an incandescent performance, .3 of a point below the judges' average...
...Chin was already widely touted as the winner in 1988. Small and fragile-looking, she skates with elegant ease and has some of Witt's knack of making the Axels and the Salchows look simple. She was the crowd's favorite, swirling and swooping through a move she has patented as the "Chin spin": stretching out to brush the ice with one hand while she whirls with one leg fully extended. After finishing second overall in the combined short and long programs, she is no longer a comer, but the star of a new generation...
...Sumners, whose most important week is finally here. "The air's O.K. there. But the only problem is that I've had too much time to think." When she has ventured outdoors, occasionally she has been seen in the company of Archrival Elaine Zayak and young Tiffany Chin. Figure skating can be a mean business, but at least they walk and laugh like friends...