Word: dismounting
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...year-old gymnast became queen of the Montreal Games by making history as the first to rate a perfect score in the Olympics--on the uneven bars, punctuated by a backwards half-twist dismount. She followed with a perfect score on the balance beam. The Forum, normally filled with raucous French Canadian hockey fans, was instead roaring with appreciation for a 4-ft. 11-in., 86-lb. Romanian who would finish the Games with seven perfect 10s, three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Comaneci launched a thousand gymnastics clubs that night...
...Brigade Combat Team, as his crew idled on the highway last week. On Friday members of Charlie Rock burst into the southern city of Nasiriyah, fully expecting a battle with Iraqi forces. As their convoy roared toward the Tallil airfield south of Nasiriyah, the brigade's gunners and dismount crews oiled their M-16s and readied the grips on their .50-cal. turret machine guns. But the brigade commanders ordered the convoy to stop its advance. Mitchell and his unit sat on a highway shoulder for hours. When they finally arrived to seize their main target--the Tallil airfield...
...identity, reality and commuting. At times Zhou Yu's Train feels like a parody of an art film, complete with slow-motion shots of a melancholy Gong Li. Not even the charming presence of Sun Hong-Lei as a love-struck veterinarian who tries to persuade Zhou to dismount her iron horse can save the film's stalled second act. It's good to have Gong Li back, but here's hoping her next director stays on track. Anyone know what Zhang Yimou...