Word: coliseum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take off from the western rim of the Coliseum, soar down the field during the playing of the national anthem, and land on a perch built in the form of one of the Olympic symbols, five interlocking rings. Bomber, warming to the mission, "had a couple of crash landings," the trainer says, but it was game...
Wolper had wanted 50 convertible automobiles, their tops up, positioned about the Coliseum. The band was to strike up a dazzling dance number, the tops were to come down, and scores of gorgeous show, uh, women were to come popping out. The number got the hook, not for any concern for dignity but because it took too long to get the cars off the field. A journalist who had been watching remarked, "Maybe there...
...board for three weeks of rehearsals and the show itself. It was enough to lure Anna Kuni and her twin sister Kana, who perform as the Cherry Blossoms, Redd Foxx's opening act in Las Vegas, ending up clad in top hats and tails, period. In the Coliseum they wore more. "We wanted to be part of the Olympics," said Anna, who with her sister came to this country from Tokyo five years ago. "We wanted to be part of that spirit...
...mission of peace. Carpenter thinks the doves mentioned in the Bible may have been pigeons instead. "I feel pigeons symbolize peace," he said, "and for an Olympic event I feel they are important in light of the world's problems." Carpenter, who lives 30 from the Coliseum as the pigeon flies, a serious pigeon man. He keeps 400, spending $300 a month on feed. He thinks "men who have pigeons relax and cope better with business problems and family problems." His very home, he went on, was bought because pigeons did not defy local zoning laws and because, once...
...only tossable item they had at hand, a rat-tailed pocket comb? This was a few days before the Olympics began. They huddled, faked, threw screen passes, ran broken-field, clutching that little comb as if it were a grail. "Man," said one, "I always wanted to play the Coliseum." You couldn't have counted the goose bumps...