Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sydney, Australia. The third leg of the journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough back to Newport. "It's not a sprint, it's a decathlon," says Race Director Jim Roos, property manager of Goat Island and one of the contest's principal organizers. "This is probably the World Series of sailing...
These old friends and adversaries had once made the national press with a backyard decathlon, one of whose events required contestants to dogtrot through the intricacies of a croquet course, portaging a full-size canoe. But while the decathlon was amusing, it was not fully satisfying in terms of life-or-death savagery. The symbolism of the Nel-Spot, on the other hand, was red in tooth and claw. Someone mentioned seeing an ad for the pistol in a magazine, and it was instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival...
Somewhere along the way, Anita Morris has surely completed Broadway's decathlon. She scaled a 50-ft. wall in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, performed an acrobatic dance routine in Seesaw, and was sawed in half by The Magic Show's Doug Henning, then stuffed into a cage with a 200-lb. cougar. In the current Broadway hit Nine, Morris gives new meaning to the phrase physical-fitness buff. In one number, A Call from the Vatican, she does a feline, erotic exercise for which she is so barely dressed in such sheer black that...
Wearing red berets or khaki forage caps emblazoned with buttons, Scout knives dangling from every webbed belt, the youngsters here plunge into seven days of whirlwind activity. They compete in a wilderness decathlon, pitch horseshoes, brand leather, play soccer and Frisbee, build a bridge without any rope, set up a tent blindfolded, run an obstacle course with arms tied, fish, canoe, raft, fire air rifles on a marksmanship range...
MARRIED. Bruce Jenner, 31, Olympic decathlon champion in 1976, who is now pursuing an acting career (Can't Stop the Music); and Linda Thompson, 30, actress (TV's Hee-Haw) and onetime girlfriend of Elvis Presley; he for the second time, she for the first; on the beach in Oahu, Hawaii...