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...shimmering Shane Gould of Australia has already established herself as the greatest female swimmer in history. Using her powerful shoulders and a slow, two-beat kick that barely ripples the water, she has set world records for every women's freestyle distance from 100 to 1,500 meters. More than Spitz did at Mexico, cool, unpretentious Shane faces the pressure of proving herself in the tense, compacted competition of the Olympics. She is determined to compete in the four women's freestyle events and, if the scheduling is right, she may swim in three others. In short, Sydney...
...five more at Munich, depending on how many events he enters. Lean, lithe Matthes is as sure as any Olympic competitor of winning his specialties-the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, in which he has been the world record holder for the past four years. Like Shane Gould, Matthes has a distinctive kick; almost twice as big as that used by other backstrokers, it has earned him the nickname "Flipper...
Railroads are rich in history if not money, and none has been quite so colorful as the Erie Lackawanna. Decades ago, investors commonly called it the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street" because its stock was manipulated and fought over in some celebrated battles between Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Commodore Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew. Later, the road became known as the "Route of the Phoebe Snow" because of a famous ad campaign that boasted about its clean passenger trains...
When he talks of future artistic empires, Papp sometimes sounds like Jay Gould, the robber baron, sometimes like Serge Diaghilev, the great impresario of ballet. When he discusses TV, however, he sounds more like the prophet Isaiah, with a vision of glory in his eye. "Eventually," he says, talking about his specials, "it will be essential to do 50 a year, 50 a month. Just by the sheer doing of it-and having it come directly out of live theater-we'll be setting up a whole cultural movement...
Though the Vonnegutian prose is lost, it's not really missed. The slickly manipulated surface is compensated by accomplished achievements in all technical departments. Hill has hired the best in the business--editor Dede Allen, photographer Miroslav Ondricek, musician Glenn Gould, and they all do as well as can be done with craft that lacks original inspiration. And the simplification of the story, and its screen enactment by a talented ensemble, result in as hard-driving a simple-minded pacifist's statement as the novel...