Word: mat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Passe, who is married to actor Paul Le Mat (American Graffiti, Melvin and Howard), has had an occasionally stormy working relationship with Gordy. She describes him, only partly in jest, as a special kind of mentor, "a tormentor." Yet Gordy has given de Passe the freedom to run the company as she sees fit. Says Gordy: "If somebody had asked me a year ago, I would never have guessed we were going to do a western." Now that de Passe has reached near the top of Hollywood's mostly white, mostly male elite, she maintains that...
Fred Jenkins returned to the mat in the 167-lb. class for the first time since the Lowell match and earned his keep with an 8-2 kill. Konovalchik grimaced...
Captain Alex Konovalchik, at 190 lbs., took six points by default when his Springfield man left the mat with a bloody mouth in the first period. Konovalchik also sang the blues, hardly changing his teammate's lyrics...
...airport with Queen Farah Diba, their entourage and pets. But unlike luckier deposed billionaires, the Shah did not have a soft landing. He had cancer and was coming down with an acute case of political leprosy. Switzerland, France and Britain, concerned about oil and terrorism, rolled up the welcome mat. Despite entreaties by the Rockefellers, who handled the fallen Shah's finances and provided him with a live-in public relations man, and Henry Kissinger, President Jimmy Carter kept the door shut. This position hardened after the U.S. embassy in Tehran was overrun and the hostages taken in November...
...loudspeakers, the individual personalities emerge. Natalia Lashchenova, who turns 15 this week, is the prankster, tripping her teammates when the coaches are looking the other way. Svetlana Boginskaya, 15, - the tallest on the team (a towering 5 ft. 2 in.), is the most serious, often perched on a mat between exercises with her nose in a book. Olga Strazheva, 15, has an appetite for science fiction. Svetlana Baitova, 16, totes Jack, a stuffed puppy, wherever she goes. When it comes to talk of Seoul, all playfulness falls away. For these girls it will be a grudge match against the Rumanians...