Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obviously having a marvelous time. He skis, as one leading foreign coach puts it, "for sheer joy, unlike the Europeans, who often are driven by political, nationalistic or commercial pressures." At the age of 20, with his best years just ahead, Phil Mahre (pronounced mare) is already the finest American male skier in history, a solid gold-medal prospect for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. As the World Cup competition ends this week in Arosa, Switzerland, Mahre is second only to Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, 22, who has won the overall championship three years...
DIED. Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, 91, indomitable British seaman who distinguished himself in two world wars; in Wateringbury, England. Moore won the Distinguished Service Order as a young navigator for destroyer flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...
...rather sit down while enjoying an inexpensive meal, go down to the corner of 29th St. and Sixth Avenue. George's Coffee Shop is one of the finest of New York's many Greek coffee shops. It's the only place in New York City where the guys behind the corner refer to a glass of water as "a ninety-one." Everything from a Western on a roll to a tunafish on rye tastes exactly the same, but the prices are reasonable...
Route 28 turns north in Falmouth and runs through North Falmouth (the home of the Nickelodeon Theater, the finest movie house on the Cape), Otis Air Force Base and then Bourne. I can't remember anything in Bourne that I have ever wanted...
Fassbinder dares in different but equally bold ways. Instead of seeking stories in the strange and the exotic, he finds the strange and exotic in stories he knows. In one of his finest films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), he evokes intense drama out of what would seem to be a supremely undramatic situation: three lesbians enclosed in a small, claustrophobic apartment who do nothing but talk, talk, talk...