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...potential medalist in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter races-if he has managed to learn from his past mistakes. Yifter once misjudged the distance of an international 5,000-meter race and stopped, thinking he had crossed the finish line a winner when there was still another lap to go. Before a 5,000-meter heat at Munich, a language confusion kept him from reaching the starting line, and he was disqualified...
Potemkin is no lap dog, however. As head of the ministry of war, he is involved in all major national decisions; as governor general of the southern provinces, he is directly responsible for administering the regions most severely affected by the Turkish war. The Empress has consulted him on almost everything, asking him to correct the grammar in her massive correspondence, requesting his views on new music and poetry. Neither Catherine nor Potemkin has any clear policy about the American Revolution, because their main concern at this time is their troublesome neighbor Turkey. If Potemkin remains in power, he will...
...picking up at the end of the collection with Shampoo, Godfather II and Nashville, Kael does something she's never done before: she lifts her analytical tools from the film itself and begins to sell it to the reader; she seems to ladle on superlatives for the publicists to lap up. About Tango, she writes, miscalculating badly, that "this is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long as there are movies." Shampoo is called "the most virtuoso example of sophisticated, kaleidoscopic farce that American moviemakers have ever come up with." And we've seen...
Despite his assets, the front runner came dangerously close to blowing his lead in the final lap. After smashing Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in Texas on May Day, he was shocked by six setbacks over the next five weeks. He lost Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon to Church; he dropped Maryland, Nevada and Rhode Island to Brown; he just barely edged Udall in Michigan...
...sitting on the floor, legs crossed, the latest issue of Psychology Today in his lap, wearing a baggy pair of wrinkled pajamas, desperately fumbling to unlock the hallway phone that he shared with his neighbors. Sweat poured off his brow...