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...difficult programs of any female gymnast, which should place her shoulder to shoulder with the favored Russians and Romanians in Sydney. Already, she has a signature move, a gasp-inducing uneven-bars maneuver in which she flies off the high bar, twists 360[degrees] in the air like a diver heading for the water, grabs the bar, swings through and does it all over again. "When I saw it, I couldn't believe she did that," says Comaneci, 1976 Olympic gold medalist, of the double release that Ray was the first to master in competition...
...have been rereading Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night," an awful book in many ways, but with an interesting haunted quality: Nicole Diver's insanity darkens the pages like a cloud passing overhead, or like the rumor of a shark in summer waters...
...book makes me think offhandedly about the bright, mysterious word "fun." Fitzgerald modeled Dick and Nicole Diver upon Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a wealthy and charming American couple who like the fictional Divers kept a villa on the Riviera in the 1920s and, in Fitzgerald's myth-making, had an exquisite genius...
...face it, the girl has everything. From a 57 Chevy to her own jet, and from a mansion to her own horse stable, she's got it made. She's a fairy princess, a S.C.U.B.A. diver, a Hollywood actress, an Olympic athlete, a pilot and a ballerina. She even rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle. And now, Barbie is running for president...
...great to see [Patton] put it all together," said sophomore diver Erik Frost. "He really had an outstanding meet...