Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been mailed in. "My strategy will be the same as always," he announced beforehand, "to pop a very big jump early and make everyone chase after me. If I feel 'on' after my first jump, I might take a second." For a personal Olympic motto he chose: "A gold medal is first. The world record is last." If his priorities did not earn admiration, there was at least irony in the boos. Criticized by some for grandstanding too smoothly in order to build his public image, he was being ragged now for his insufficient pursuit of glory...
...difference in 1984 was that the women defined themselves however they chose to-and the press sometimes scrambled to keep up. After Cyclist Connie Carpenter-Phinney won the gold, she spoke to the true feeling of women in the Games: "I feel proud. I was a pioneer in women's cycling, and I worked very hard for this day. I think it may mean more to me than it might to some others." But the press became entangled in a problem of modern manners, insisting on knowing if she was Miss Carpenter or Mrs. Davis Phinney...
...standing by to light the Olympic flame," he told me, "in case they chose me." Abdel Kaber, the Moroccan aide who has been with him recently, whispered that the champ had not even been invited to the opening ceremonies. Phone calls were made on his behalf, but it was too late. Nothing could be done, apparently...
...born actor who chose a "rather mad way of throwing away his theater career," said Gielgud last week. Burton's friends had been telling him that for years. It was advice he did not want to take. "I rather like my reputation, actually," he said when he turned 50. "That of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer. It's rather an attractive image." Some measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Burton, like his friend and fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, poured his out by the bucketful until, at last, there was nothing left...
Both athletes chose arthroscopy, partly because it offered at least an outside chance of competing in Los Angeles. The decision was wise: both went on to earn gold medals in their events, Benoit by winning the first women's Olympic mara thon and Retton by beating out the top Rumanian and Chinese gymnasts for the all-around championship...