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Heiden got a good start, but she obviously was beginning to fade in the final third of the race. Her stroking, normally so brisk and efficient, seemed choppy and strained. It was like watching a finely tuned machine run out of lubricant and start to seize up. When it was over, she said she had expected to finish about sixth. Then she added in her chirpy little kid's voice: "You can get pretty nervous thinking about what people expect. But then you say, 'Hey, it's only two and a half minutes out of my life...
...barely sublimated desire, bulging jeans and watery eyes, sex sans porn, pulse without flesh, a lean, lacquered look at the demons of the California Dream. Instead, Schrader concocted a laughable montage of silly sequences, an absurd plot and bad lines that reaches climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit in this kinky-trick movie that John Travolta...
...things seemed certain last week: 1) foreign policy will loom much larger as a campaign issue than any of the candidates would have predicted two months ago and 2) Jimmy Carter's sudden rise in popular esteem, based on his cool handling of the hostage situation, could fade just about as fast if his response to the twin problems of Iran and Afghanistan is eventually viewed by the voters as being ineffective. Despite the current commanding leads of Carter and Reagan for their party's nominations, 1980 promises to be a highly volatile political year...
Indeed no one expected Rhodesia's savage civil war to fade away quietly. In the first week following the signing of the cease-fire agreement, 80 Rhodesians were killed in continuing clashes and sporadic skirmishes between guerrillas and Salisbury security forces. Three Royal Air Force troops, members of the Commonwealth monitoring force, also died when their Puma helicopter crashed after accidentally striking a power line; they were the first casualties of Britain's sponsorship of the truce. In other provocations, guerrilla supporters were regularly abused by hostile blacks as well as by whites. On several occasions white police...
...stickhandling. Their street-gang tactics earned them an eight-year stretch as the champs of the National Hockey League penalty box, including a record 33 hours in 1975-76. For a while it paid off. The Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975, then began to fade. This year the Flyers still lead the league in penalty minutes-old habits die hard-but something new has been added: the elegant, almost choreographed blend of skating and passing precision developed by the Soviet national teams and the champion Montreal Canadiens...