Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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International Olympic Committee President Juan Samaranch must be one too. During his part in the ceremonies, he said, "We are convinced that once again we will demonstrate to the whole world the true meaning of sport as an illustration of friendship and fraternity, with the Olympic flag as the symbol." When Mika Spiljak, whose official title is "President of the Presidency," declared the Games open, doves raced balloons to the mountaintops. In one translation of the Olympic oath, vowed to for all by Yugoslav Skier Bojan Krizaj, the phrase "in the spirit of true sportsmanship" came out "in the spirit...
...play in Lyon in 1952. Unlike Personal Best, where the relationship between the two women is distinctly physical and the film The Turning Point, where the women share a strictly platonic relationship. Kury does not explicate the nature of the protagonists' relationship, but rather leaves Madeline and Lena's friendship ambiguous...
...Madeline's bare legs she quips, "You're bare-legged." Madeline explains that she is wearing suntan lotion, and rubs her leg, asking Lena to smell her hand. In this first meeting of two soon to be friends the viewer wonders why Kury has chosen to initiate their friendship with such a decisively physical scene...
...this rather intimate moment also describes one of the compelling forces in the two women's close friendship. Madeline is, in a sense, the bare legged or liberated of the two, while Lena is enveloped in the world of domesticity; a world which Made line begins to show her is limiting and stifling...
...France of the 1950s, the domestic world was the accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal...