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...millions who still dispute the outcome in 1972. Said Knight after winning the gold: "I didn't think players could come together and play as hard and as well as these kids did." The first Olympic basketball competition, in 1936, was played outdoors on sand and clay, and the final was held in a dribble-deadening rain. The game may have to be played that way again before the U.S.'s hard-charging knights fail to scale every summit...
...Journalism, which was popularized in magazines and books in the 1960s and '70s and has been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties rather than participants, and even claim to know what people were thinking. Clay Felker, when he was running New York magazine, edited out Gail Sheehy's explanation in an article that a prostitute, Red-pants, was a composite because, he says, "I thought it slowed the story down." He regrets having misled readers. Reviewers challenged the reconstructed dialogue in David McClintick...
...fund was initiated with a grant from Boston businessman Langdon T. Clay '50 as part of Harvard's ongoing fund drive, the Campaign...
Johnson's own work, also done at the atelier, needs painstaking care. After he models a 12-in.-tall clay figure, assistants duplicate it as a life-size nude. Real clothing is fitted on it by a full-time seam stress, who stitches the material to plaster castings so the folds will fall just right. Afterward it is sprayed with a stiffening resin to hold its shape. The casting method Johnson uses is so fine that it duplicates wrinkles on the leather of an old briefcase. He hired Japanese and Italian as well as American chemists to develop...
...just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea for Gremlins. "His imagination stoked by a young lifetime of reading Marvel Comic books, watching old Universal horror movies and collecting clay models of monsters, Columbus set to exorcising his tiny demons in a screenplay. By the end of that year, his script had found its way to the desk of Steven Spielberg...