Word: glyptic
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...turned out, was a harbinger of more disappointments. Going into the final rotation in the all-around competition, Comaneci was in sole possession of first place. She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace. Suddenly as she flew over the bar, she was unable to regain her grip and fell what seemed a dangerously long way to the mat. She resumed the exercise, receiving a 9.5 score, the maximum allowed after a fall. The Soviet women, who have dominated...
There was a false start, charged to both skaters. Then the race was off cleanly: it amounted to a little more than half a minute of intense windmilling energy, an event of amazingly compacted skill. Speed skating is a contained, glyptic art, etching heat applied to ice. Kulikov whipped through the first 100 meters .05 seconds faster than Heiden. Then the Soviet slipped for an instant on the first turn, stuck out a hand, regained his balance and held his lead into the backstretch. The two men switched lanes in the backstretch, as prescribed, but Heiden was still behind going...
...then the play has flashes of what it might have been. The first scene, where husband, wife and wife's lover trade epigrams, has some of the flavor of the early Noel Coward-without, unfortunately, Coward's fine, glyptic phrasing. Describing an earthquake that has just killed 20 million Italians, Wintermouth mourns "Poor Italy. Shaped like a boot, and the heel fell off." Madeline Kahn, however, can make even the most ordinary lines sound like Coward...
...Some official wartime code names: Truman, "Kilting"; Stalin, "Glyptic"; Harry Hopkins, "Kneepiece"; Eisenhower, "Duckpin"; Stettinius, "Collodion...
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