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PETER PAN. Critics scoffed when ex-gymnast Cathy Rigby dared to take on Mary Martin's showcase role, but she has proved herself a worthy successor -- on national tour and, for two holiday seasons, on Broadway. The special effects will never compare with Hook, but the storytelling is sweeter and more...
Reilly did her best Mitch Gaylord immitation--making saves only a gymnast could get to. With nearly 17 minutes remaining, Princeton forced the keeper to dive for the save. The Tigers picked up the rebound, and Reilly had to jump to deflect that...
...callous. His peers consider him an artist in the way he brings down mammoth firs to fall side by side, within inches of one another. With a 20-lb. saw hoisted to his shoulder and an ax in hand, he walks on logs with the grace of a gymnast on the high beam. But standing atop the trunk that was a 200-year-old tree, he can still share in the forest's loss. "It doesn't take long," he says. "To think it's been growing for 200 years or better, and then it's down in a minute...
...much the senses that TV misses -- the smell of the chalk, the feel of the sun, the deafening chants that greet every Korean judoka -- as it is the confusion. TV likes the orderly. It cannot, therefore, catch the lovely mayhem of gymnastics, the dizzying lyricism of a four-square circus in which everything is happening at once: a Japanese girl running furiously toward the | vault, even as an East German prances through her floor exercises, a Guatemalan teeters on the balance beam, a Bulgarian attacks the parallel bars. The first time one sees a gymnast leap, one's heart flies...
...opted for a subtler form of boosterism: its commentators are neutral, but if a sport offers dim prospects for a U.S. medal, it gets scant airtime. U.S. viewers intrigued by all the advance talk about Soviet gymnast Dmitri Bilozerchev were able to view only a smattering of his routines, although the reporting team of Dick Enberg, Mary Lou Retton and especially Bart Conner explained the events incisively. Fans of men's diving were lucky to see Greg Louganis tucked into the bottom right-hand corner while a minor basketball game dominated the screen...