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Born Jan. 31, 1929, in London - her schoolteacher father Charles had competed as a gymnast for England in the 1912 Olympics - Jean Merilyn Simmons was blessed from youth with a beauty the camera simply had to capture. The striking quality in Simmons was the waywardness of her beauty: a triangular face dominated by large eyes and high cheekbones leading to a small, voluptuous mouth that could be sullen or amused. Her attitude promised a challenge to any man who would seek to love or tame her. That's clear in the 1946 Great Expectations, where her Estella calls...
...Horn closed out the match at 25-23 with a well-placed kill.Ono Horn contributed several key defensive plays as well, racking up 23 blocks throughout the match. Sophomore libero Christine Wu tacked on another 27 and made strategic plays for the Crimson, frequently saving the point with a gymnast-like style. The pace picked up at the start of the third, with both teams exchanging big kills. Ingersoll led an offensive barrage that put Harvard up 15-12. The Huskies’ deficit grew to five due in part to Durwood’s efficient serving. Though the Crimson...
...class of 25 had two “Heidi H”s, a difficulty exacerbated by the fact that they shared not only the same appearance (blonde, blue-eyed) but also the same full name: there was Heidi Hansen, who played violin, and Heidi Hanson, the gymnast. In high school, the main office dealt with the problem matter-of-factly by announcing them on the intercom as “Heidi Hansen E-N” and “Heidi Hanson O-N.” It was only during college that I realized how uniquely Iowan...
...unless you once lived in Communist Russia). You could take a picture of your cat eating cat food and pretend it was dinnertime at the gulag. Or if you have an unusually small kitten, you could joke about robbing it of its childhood and training it as an Olympic gymnast. But where would one find a website dedicated to such a strange, esoteric joke? If only one existed...
DANCING WITH THE STARS, Season 8: An Olympic gymnast, three crooks and Denise Richards walk into a reality show...