Word: jana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the unknown Americans, Archer Rick McKinney won a silver medal. Pentathlete Mike Storm helped his team to a silver and finished fifth in individual competition. Single-Scull Rower John Biglow came in fourth, the women's flatwater kayaking team also placed fourth, and Fencer Jana Angelakis lost in the preliminaries. Weight Lifter Kevin Winter dropped out because of injuries...
When Storm is 104, the typical fencer that age will still be taking lessons from his coaches. Or so say the fencers; their sport is passionate, intensely personal, a fierce relationship between eternal mentors and lifelong learners. At 22, Jana Angelakis, the youngest member of the five-woman U.S. foil team, is ranked No. 2. She is studying with her third coach, a Soviet named Emmanuil Kaidanov who coaches the men's team at Penn State, where she is enrolled on a full athletic scholarship. Kaidanov, she says, is teaching her the why of fencing. "Mine has always been...
...many times, only to be shattered again, that few dared hope that the latest cease-fire would be anything more than a brief respite. "If you had told us ten years ago that we could expect a decade of war, we would have thrown up our hands," says Jana Tamer, publisher of a Middle East newsletter. "Tell us now that it will go on for another ten years, and I guess we would just shrug. We are numb...
Throughout the play, Peer dichotomizes women. Those of maternal purity, he fears to touch. The accessible slut, he invariably beds. The young Peer of Part I (rather monotonously played by Greg Martyn) scoots off to a wedding feast held for one of his old flames (Jana Schneider). There he meets Solveig (Jossie de Guzman), a girl of 15 or 16 who captivates him but is skittish at his brusque advances. To the end of the play, she will be his undimmed light of love and will incredibly play the combined role of wife and mother figure without the literal consolations...
...CITY, U.S.A. Inside, 100 people have set up housekeeping in tents, cars, campers and trucks. Some have been there for as long as eight months, some stay only a few days. Some are from out of state, but most are former blue-collar workers from the Houston area. Says Jana Williams, 27, who has lived there six months with her husband and ten-month-old baby: "Vigilante groups called us trash and ran us out of another camp. We're not. We're just Americans who are out of work. Here we are safe...