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American after American lines up to take pictures of the Czech in the penalty box. A little blond kid with a Kodak instamatic won't leave until the player looks up at him. The boy taps on the window insistently until the player turns and glares and the flash bulb nearly blinds...
...hard to believe this is happening: the game, the Americans cheering for the Romanians, the peanut vendors, the officials almost killed by a flying puck, the people from Rochester, the buck popcorn, the announcement of the U.S. -Norway score, the ice, the lights, the political implications, the meaning, the flash bulbs. How much did your ticket cost...
...were not competing; Irina was having a child. The Russians too had added new moves to their traditional routines to try to match the young Americans' dazzle. It promised to be a classic encounter: the veterans against the newcomers, the Soviets' grandiose style against the fire and flash of the Americans...
...none of the lightning-flash finesse of Entebbe, none of the bloody ferocity of Mayaguez. Yet once again, however fleetingly, the frustration of dealing with the irrational acts of militants had been lifted by a single daring and dramatic deed. The cunning maneuver executed by Canadian diplomats in secreting six Americans in hostile Tehran for almost three months and then spiriting them to safety last week provided a heartening interlude in Washington's still unsuccessful struggle to free 50 hostages from their captors in chaotic Iran...
These are tap masters: Green slides in subtle steps, the soul dancer of the three, smooth, profound. Briggs adds a Hollywood flash. He waggles his hips as he taps, throws in a little jump, grins like a self-satisfied, grown-up L'il Rascal. Amazingly, the Sandman outsteps his friends, dancing like Ali if Ali had been a dancer, cool, hustling, full of street energy and showmen's finesse, heel to toe, over and over in a thousand combinations. Nierenberg's camera captures each...