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...Fluid, elegant body movements are a hallmark of his style. Moreover, he is a master at manipulating the politics of figure skating. When judges attended practice sessions in Innsbruck, Fassi ordered his skaters to work on their best moves: he told Hamill, for example, to trace her strongest figures near the judges and her weakest on the far side of the rink. It also does not hurt that Fassi coaches skaters from so many nations. In competition, judges from those countries sometimes give his pupils the benefit of the doubt: in Hamill's short program, the Italian judge gave...
When play resumed, the cagers' fluid scoring punch had as much zip left as cold mashed potatoes. The two biggest cogs thrown into the Crimson machinery were the Quakers' leading scorers John Engels, who skied for 27 points, and Keven McDonald. The two average 15.6 and 18.8 points per game respectively...
...Rachmaninoff, Berman shows most clearly his delight with his old style of playing, fluid, elastic shapes. In fact, everything Berman plays seems suffused with a romantic willingness to bend a phrase to an expressive purpose. It would be interesting to hear him take a shot at the baroque or classical composers he's avoided so far. In the small parts o the repertoire he has staked out, however--the Russian and the neo-Romantic--Berman is unsurpassed...
...Specialist Peter Mueller. "We're losing precious time." At last, late in the afternoon, the ice is cleared and the Americans lace up. Their arms swinging in the hypnotic rhythm of the workout, the skaters seem oblivious to the cold and stinging snow. Round, round, round they go, fluid figures in the fading light...
...Hamill. If the U.S. has picked up no gold medals by then, Dorothy will be the last chance. No matter the stakes of national pride, she will be well worth watching. With a dancer's sense of her own body, an incandescent smile and a skating style as fluid as a Chopin prelude, Dorothy will light up the Olympics...