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...their lives. Olga (Rosemary Harris) idealistically teaches school but dreams of a home and family. Miserable in her marriage to a pedantic schoolmaster (Rex Robbins), Masha (Ellen Burstyn) stumbles into a hopeless, heart-wrenching affair with the garrison's Lieut. Colonel Vershinin (Denholm Elliott). The youngest sister, Irina (Tovah Feldshuh), seeks to be ennobled by the "dignity of work" in the local telegraph office...
...skater Tatiana Averina won a gold in the 1,000-meter race to go along with two bronze medals in the 500 and 1,500. Galina Stepanskaya, 27, a last-minute addition to the Soviet speed skating team, took the 1,500-meter race. The favored figure-skating duo, Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, though performing slightly off their usually impeccable form, easily won the gold medal. Also, the juggernaut Russian hockey team beat but did not embarrass a youthful American squad...
Even Borkum-Riff's blatant sexism paled in comparison with that of Chris Schenkel, who ABC had announcing the figure skating and ice dancing events. Schenkel commented on the great Soviet skater Irina Rodnina: "Look at the ice shavings in her beautiful black hair." Or after the skating expert calls the skaters "Powerful! These people are powerhouses!", Schenkel says, "She's the cutest thing you'll see. Not too long ago, she was a tiny little thing, but now she's grown up and is a match for her partner...
...women's competition, Dorothy Hamill and Diane de Leeuw will skate for the gold medal. In pairs, there should be no contest. Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, a Russian duo, have won every major pairs title in recent years, and with good reason. Skating in synchronous movements and precise combinations, they mesh like the gears in a Swiss watch. Beyond form, they skate to their music with exquisite choreography and complete the most pyrotechnic maneuvers with consummate grace. They started skating together when Rodnina's original partner, Alexsei Ulanov, left her to marry another skater. Though married themselves...
There is only one class on the Lermontov, the first Soviet passenger ship to sail into New York harbor in 25 years. One member of that classless society was Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, 66, who after disembarking with his wife Irina, took in Aïda, one of his favorites, at the Metropolitan Opera...