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...Joan B. Hall...
...place where Walter Mondale has his roots. Although nearly all Mondale's relatives left for the U.S. 130 years ago, the name evokes considerable civic pride. At the Mundal Hotel, where Mondale stayed in 1979, Manager Billie Orheim displays a guest book that reads, "Joan and I were thrilled to return home...
...delicate they all really are, and how fragile their dream. For every flying Carl Lewis there is a fallen Mary Decker, and the fullest appreciation of sport requires both. Joan Benoit breezes in gracefully from her marathon, while Gabriela Andersen-Schiess lurches along grotesquely behind, and the picture-memory of the spectators develops into a composite of both images-the terrific and the terrible-much more touching as an entry than either could be individually. The happiest circumstance, of course, is when they take turns. First U.S. Gymnast Mary Lou Retton rejoiced as Rumania's Ecaterina Szabo sighed, then...
...this is what equality looks like. Cheryl Miller, Kelly McCormick, Tracy Cauikins, Flo Hyman, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Joan Benoit running through the tunnel into the Los Angeles Coliseum and out into history...
...Dolls that is still running in repertory. Less successful have been efforts by the company's director, Sir Peter Hall, to stage original, serious musical works. Last winter his collaboration with Composer Marvin Hamlisch on a dirge about Jean Seberg, in which the actress was seriously compared with Joan of Arc, fizzled at the stake. Now Sir Peter has devised an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. As in Jean Seberg, masks abound, with the actors simulating Orwell's heroic horses, quisling chickens and Stalinist pigs (led by David Ryall as Squealer). It is all very...