Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged Irishman bids his father's ghost adieu, but the ghost kicks up his heels in witty, wise and mischievous ways. A medal should be struck for every member of a marvelous cast headed by Barnard Hughes...
Unfortunately, Sarah's path to an Olympics gold medal is strewn with Freudian booby traps. Aunt Velvet, it seems, has still not recovered from a miscarriage she suffered after being thrown by Pie years earlier. John has not only problems at the typewriter but a patho logical fear of marriage. Both these characters discuss their neuroses at great length, often in voice-over narration that accompanies Forbes' extensive travelogue footage of British scenic vistas. Young Sarah, meanwhile, finds herself unable to make friends among her peers. In one gratuitously jarring incident, a cruel class mate presents her with...
...changed his mind, and a fortunate thing too. At 30-now the oldest of the cello competitors-he returned to play, among other pieces, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, which he performed in 1966. This time he won a rousing ovation and a first-prize gold medal. In what can only be called the year of the strings for America, Elmar Oliveira, 28, of Binghamton, N.Y., shared a gold medal in the violin division with the Soviet Union's Ilya Grubert; Violinist Dylana Jenson, only 17, shared a second-place silver medal, and Daniel Heifetz shared...
...pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley. Barrett, as senior American military officer, approached, looked the general up and down, offered the observation, "General, it looks as if you have a medal there for every campaign except Shays' Rebellion." Barrett was to suffer for this, as were I and Davies, and all who tried to instruct Hurley on China...
...compulsion to see what my potential is. I don't do it for anyone else. I do it for myself." Luesing will never make the Olympics, but her feelings, and those of thousands like her, parallel the thoughts of someone who has: Kate Schmidt, 24, who took a bronze medal in the javelin in Montreal. Says she: "I love to see myself getting strong, being competent and taking care of myself. That's probably the most motivating part of being an athlete...