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DIED. Valeri Kharlamov, 33, high-scoring forward for the Soviet Union's national ice hockey team since 1969, who was instrumental in the team's Olympic championships in 1972 and 1976; of injuries received in a head-on car collision that also killed his wife Irina; near Moscow...
...except Arkady and a beautiful, damaged actress named Irina. Her sexual connection with Osborne is extended to include the I detective, an isosceles triangle with points ranging from the Kremlin to Leningrad to an obscure island named Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown...
...figure skating (see box), finishing second in the women's competition. A stylish Swiss, Denise Biellmann, 18, showed a few complicated moves of her own and took the gold. And once more, the Soviets proved that at least one factory is meeting its production quota quite successfully: Irina Vorobieva and Igor Lisovski won the gold medal for pairs, joining a line of Russian couples champions that stretches back five Olympiads...
Indeed, the only sure bet at the World Championships was the triumph of the Soviet duo. Within seconds after Vorobieva and Lisovski took the ice, their claim was clear to the legacy of Irina Rodnina and her two successive partners, Alexei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, as well as that of Ljudmila and Oleg Protopopov. The liquid balletic expressiveness, the finesse and harmony that is the hallmark of Russian pairs skating has been handed down intact to the latest heirs. Vorobieva and Lisovski took a comfortable lead after the short program, two minutes of compulsory jumps and lifts. Even a near...
...watched closely since her first school workshop performance. During rehearsals for her final student appearance in Swan Lake last May, she had a hip injury, but danced "full out" the whole time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...