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Once again Paul Widerman drew first blood for the Crimson at 118-Ibs. with a 10-4 win over Minuteman Rick Shiarzi. Shiarzi, normally a vital link in the crush--line-up which earned UMass the number two slot behind Rhode Island in the New England ranking, found Widerman waiting to explode after an unfortunate tie last weekend. The fast action double leg moves Widerman sent out like machine gun fire decimated Shiarzi...
Over the years, political arguments have erupted repeatedly in the Games. At the London Olympics of 1948, the new state of Israel was excluded to forestall an Arab boycott. The 1956 Olympics in Melbourne occurred just after Soviet tanks had rolled into Hungary to crush the uprising there...
This grinding of international wills, like the huge muscling of the earth's tectonic plates, threatens to crush the Olympics. Some people believe that might be just as well. The Olympics have become preposterously overcommercial and overbuilt, unwieldy and ruinously expensive. NBC paid the Soviets $87 million for television rights to the Moscow Games (and with laudable forbearance has stayed out of the argument over the boycott). For $50,000 to $300,000, a company can buy into the Games; Dannon paid up, for example, and so can advertise itself, with meaningless grandeur, as "The Official Yogurt...
...slug of beer. Crush out the cigarette, blink, and lean forward, towards the screen. Frank Reynolds is blinking at them. He never quite looks them in the eye. The TV projects its blue gleam over waxen faces. A sip of beer. In an aggressive gesture President Carter may boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow if the Russians don't go home. This threat elicits a wry smile from one of the two men. The other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks...
...Goghs, 14 Gauguins, twelve Seurats?in all, 428 works by 169 painters, from 1880 to the early 1900s. They represent the very conception of culture that the Royal Academy, when such work was first seen in England before World War I, believed it was its mission to crush. If anyone still doubts that modernism is our academy, our official culture, here is the ocular proof...