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...dive of death is a reverse 3-1/2 somersault in the tuck position. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, it had a degree of difficulty of 3.4, compounded by 2-the number of divers who had died attempting it. But the Dive of Death is what Greg Louganis needed to win the gold medal in the 10-m platform competition, his second of the Games. He nailed it, straight in, no splash...
Only a handful of people, among them his coach, Ron O'Brien, knew of Louganis' condition in September '88. When the diver pulled ahead with that last platform dive, he embraced O'Brien and started sobbing. Asked by Walters what he told O'Brien, Louganis replied, "I said that nobody will ever know what we've just been through...
Frankel, explaining the inspiration for his film, spoke about his own views on marriage. "A lot of people just dive right in. As if marriage were a wonderful next step and there's no asterisk or Surgeon General's warning that this could also be hazardous to your health...
Julia Roberts and Tim Robbins earn their tickets to Paris by playing reporters who get locked in the same hotel room for a week, jockeying to cover the murder, or each other. After a few hours, they drop all pretense of working and dive in bed. Their lack of interest in reporting is second only to Altman's. Avoiding the flash of the fashion world, they don't miss much--though Lyle Lovett might do well to ask his wife what she was doing with Robbins under that bedsheet...
...stock market took a steep dive early last Tuesday, plunging 91.52 points -- the biggest one-day loss in 10 months. Investors, worried about the effect of the Fed's latest interest-rate hike on corporate earnings and on the economy in general, shifted money to the bond market. At week's end, however, the Dow had gained back 30 points and closed...