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...year, the distinction of being the first anchorwoman on TV (Barbara Walters is not, technically, an anchorwoman because she doesn't read the news), and the prospect of national fame finally persuaded her to take the job. She had never been on television before, but inexperience had proved no handicap at the Post. "It never occurred to me," she says now, "that I would be anything but terrific...
Robin Starling is living in a contradiction. As the disabled victim of technology he is society's greatest shame. But as the person who overcomes his handicap with the help of technology, he is society's pride. On one hand, he has the right to be among society's most bitter critics. But on the other, he must be among its most cheerful proponents, to be sure that he--the painful reminder of society's failing--is not locked away...
...kids in Chinatown are disadvantaged educationally and recreationally," he says. "The public schools don't help them much with their language handicap, so they can't keep up academically. Chinatown is adjacent to the Combat Zone, and the Mass Turnpike runs right through the middle of it. They have little open space left for recreation...
...twelve, he was old to begin serious dance studies, perhaps, but talent overcame that handicap. By the time he was 16, he was invited to join a dance troupe touring and performing for teenagers. They went to Leningrad, where he found the atmosphere of the old czarist capital intoxicating. As a dancer, he could not help visiting the Kirov school. There he happened to attend a class taught by the late Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin, a great master who coached Nureyev and Valery Panov. Not hoping for much, Baryshnikov approached Pushkin (no kin to the famed Russian poet) and said...
Julie Roin described the handicap as "the hardest part of the game. We had to avoid touching bottom when we had the ball...