Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, has anyone in skating so melded music, blades and bodies into a unified whole. Torvill and Dean performed an extended pas de deux in which difficult athletic feats are made to appear effortless, though the beat is so slow that the skaters can never build momentum. Like the music, the movements are eerily erotic and mesmerizing, and even for favorites, the program was a gamble. In winning, Torvill and Dean elevated an entire sport. Afterward, Dean brushed aside the mutters about single-tempo selection: "Maybe it's something that hasn't been done before...
...country by redefining the struggle between the two nations as a battle in the eternal war between good and evil forces. In short, the war picked up where the revolution had left off. Up to this day, the Khomeini regime uses the war for restoring the revolutionary momentum which continues to be one of the foundations of its power...
...question remains, and it is the most important one of all: When the voting starts, will people line up behind Walter Mondale? Despite the gathering momentum of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, skeptics note that Mondale has not aroused the electorate, that his support, in the words of one, is "a mile wide and an inch thick." Another doubter likens Mondale's campaign to a glass train: one bump, and it is sure to shatter...
Mondale knew it would take a big campaign kitty to run in all of those momentum-setting early primaries and that anyone without a lot of cash would have to pick his shots carefully. If a candidate guessed wrong, he might face a pivotal primary without enough money to compete...
...instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center stage only to belt out three or four of Kander and Ebb's snazzier songs, while the rest of The Rink skates along on the momentum of uninspired professionalism. But Chita Rivera's high-voltage presence and performance act as saving shock therapy for a catatonic show-biz form. -By Richard Corliss