Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Islanders 3, Montreal...
Ueberroth, 47, masterminded a triumph that involved four-fifths of the nations of the globe. The bottom line, in terms of both money and morale, was more than impressive. Traditionally, the Olympics have lost money. In 1976 Montreal was left with a $1 billion debt, and Canadian taxpayers are still paying off the loss. This year, for the first time, the Games received almost no government funds and ended up with an unimaginable surplus of $215 million --and the sum could reach $250 million by June. To do this, Ueberroth mustered a force of 72,000, about half of them...
...retrospective of Golub's work, seen this fall at Manhattan's New Museum of Contemporary Art, is now on view at the La Jolla Museum in La Jolla, Calif. The show will also travel to Chicago, Montreal and Washington. It is not a show to miss, partly because it has so much to say about the problems of being an "engaged" painter in America today. At root, they come down to how painting can operate in the realm of ideas about violence and power when its audience's sense of the terrible has been so largely...
...seems to have diminished since Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort are hardly new. Still, there...
...denounced "the punishment of athletes" caused by political boycotts of the 1976 Games in Montreal, the 1980 Games in Moscow and the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and declared...