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...upon returning home to California, Louganis, as divers say, "lost the water." Disoriented and depressed, he drank, dabbled in drugs and even attempted suicide. He left the hard-nosed Lee for the gentler O'Brien, who somehow kept Louganis focused through all the fallow non-Olympic years that stretched between Montreal and Los Angeles. (The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Games.) In 1984 Louganis won both the springboard and platform competitions. "That was the peak," says O'Brien...
...various Olympic sports. Too often both choreography and coaching emphasize virtuosity in what might be called a can-you-top-this derby. Violette Verdy, an elegant Paris Opara ballerina who came to City Ballet in the '50s and is now a teaching associate, ponders the differences between her own, gentler dance culture and the harder, high-tech world in which this generation must work. "We live now under so many pressures. This is a time of technique. Speed becomes violence; energy becomes stridency...
...kinder, gentler image is not what Hillary Clinton needs. A firm stance and a reply of ``I am bitch, hear me roar!'' is the ticket for dealing with her critics...
Lucy Eerdmans Manchester, New Hampshire A kinder, gentler image is not what Hillary Clinton needs. A firm stance and a reply of ``I am bitch, hear me roar!'' is the ticket for dealing with her critics...
...kinder, gentler image is not what the First Lady needs. A firm stance and a reply of ``I am bitch, hear me roar!'' is the ticket for dealing with her critics...