Word: hackling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...podium, one could imagine oneself in some Eastern version of Sleepy Hollow. There was Artur Dmitriev, lifting his new partner Oksana Kazakova to a gold, with a long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge, as he had done in Lillehammer and in Albertville. And there was slalom ace Alberto Tomba, saying he wanted to find a girl to settle down with. As the newcomer Kazakova said, after surviving a singled double...
...between customers, and even the local organized-crime syndicates agreed to observe an Olympic truce. At the luge spiral, fans sat on banks of snow in earflaps, letting out cries of delight and astonishment as contestants whooshed past in 80-m.p.h. gusts of air. As cheering fellow lugers raised Hackl, lifting the perennial champion to their shoulders, a competing smile played out on the face of the Venezuelan team of one, known around the dinner table as Iginia Boccalandro...
This may be a road show, but the sets and costumes are Broadway quality -- and so is the supporting cast. As the curmudgeonly Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, Jay Garner is a heavyweight foil for Channing. Michael DeVries, as chief clerk Cornelius Hackl, and Florence Lacey, his vis-a-vis as milliner Irene Molloy, are an especially appealing pair of singing comedians...
...winners, the tyranny of time was partly reversed, and the payoff was a moment that seemed to last forever. "It's wonderful that such an investment has a return all in one day," said Georg Hackl, a silver medalist in 1988 claiming his gold in the luge. But even for champions, there are a hundred clocks working simultaneously, not all of them benign. Bonnie Blair, after winning a gold, coolly outlined the four-year plan that took her from the Calgary Games to Albertville and how "I took each year a little differently." Not in the plan, however...