Word: ender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-known story, the movie leaves no room for suspense. When the action drags, it makes little difference whether the crooks wear habits or five o'clock shadow. Nothing new emerges about the Watergate fiasco--except that it is difficult to make an entertaining film out of it. Robert Ender's screenplay, an adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel The Abbess of Crewe, manages only to trivialize the scandal, and any profundity about absolute power corrupting absolutely is lost beneath gossamer one-liners...
...Here," according to Maura Costin, the Kornelia Ender of the Radcliffe swim team, "the decision is yours. They (the Byerly Hallers) basically say: 'You know what we have to offer. If you take it, fine, if not, that's OK too.' At Princeton, I was taken out to dinner and always received letters and telephone calls from the coach. If I had gone to Princeton, I would have felt like I had to swim." Obviously, this low-key approach (what other approach would be used at Harvard?) works (and not just for athletes. We're here, right...
...offer up precise technical information just when it was desperately needed. Donna de Varona ignored fascinating aspects of the women's swimming, using her time, instead, to lobby for U.S. Government-supported athletic programs. It was as if the East Germans had launched a Sputnik rather than Kornelia Ender. Gymnast Commentator Cathy Rigby Mason upheld the standards of Olympic amateurism, trilling things like "Look at that amplitude," without defining it. But other "expert" commentators came through admirably. Ken Sitzberger clearly distinguished the great dives from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane analyses of the basketball...
...Ender, who started swimming at five and won three silver medals as a 13-year-old at Munich, has since turned in a score of world-record performances. Arguably the best woman swimmer of all time, she explodes from the starting block with such force that she is often 3 feet ahead of the field when heads break water. She dives shallow and planes high like a speedboat, with much of her body out of the water. Her motion is so efficient-though not stylish-that she is able to set world records while taking substantially fewer strokes per minute...
...record of 56.19 sec. by .7 sec. "That's about the end of my swimming career," said Matthes; but he has a lot of poolside time in his future. His doting fiancee, who carefully handed her engagement ring to a judge before each race, is Golden Girl Ender...