Word: czech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sorry I haven't written but it's been a busy couple of weeks. First was the tourney in Auiles, Spain, where I did pretty well but lost in the semi's. Along the way I whipped the third was the top-ranked Czech junior junior (don't ask me to remember what his name was, those Slovak names really blow my mind), and then beat the second ranked Canadian, a guy named Wostenholme, in the quarterfinals...
DIED. Ida Kaminska, 80, longtime star of the classic Yiddish theater and best known to a wider audience for her role in the Oscar-winning Czech film The Shop on Main Street (1965); in New York City. Born to actor parents who had their own company in Warsaw, Kaminska made her stage debut at four, began directing at 17, and, with her first husband, Zygmund Turkow, founded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater. She fled the Nazi invasion in 1939, but returned after the war to reorganize her theater. With Polish government support, her troupe gained international renown, but officially inspired...
After the Romanians are losing by a large margin, though, one gets angry enough to slug a Czech, who in turn grabs the Romanian's stick. The Czech goes to the penalty box. There he is, a real live Czech sitting just a few feet away. "Take a picture, take a picture of him." So I do. It's embarrassing; after all he's not an animal...
American after American lines up to take pictures of the Czech in the penalty box. A little blond kid with a Kodak instamatic won't leave until the player looks up at him. The boy taps on the window insistently until the player turns and glares and the flash bulb nearly blinds...
...Americans is oddly schizophrenic. They ride players into the boards and forecheck -an oafish game. On offense, on the other hand, they strive -when they can remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The weakness of this hybrid approach showed up in a big game against the Czechs. With a one-man advantage after a Czech penalty, the Americans got too clever by half: they fecklessly passed the puck back and forth for 1 min. 40 sec., until time ran out. All the while, Brooks was screaming, "Shoot! Shoooot...