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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team gold medal since 1960- that many of the difficult tricks bear the names of the Japanese gymnasts who invented them. But a solid Soviet team, led by Ditiaid, 22, and the exciting Tkachev, 22, may change the language of men's gymnastics. Says former U.S. Olym pian Muriel Grossfeld: "The Soviets are superb, awesome under pressure. At least five of the six Soviet men can do [tricks] only one or two could do last year. It's amazing that a team could have that kind of depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coming of Age in Fort Worth | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Territorial Rights, Muriel Spark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editor's Choice | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Yale Series of Younger Poets has produced such distinguished alumni as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser. This year's winner, selected from a field of 475, is Leslie Ullman, 31, a college teacher now living in Kansas City, and she has already cleared the first two hurdles facing all beginning poets: having something to say and saying it well. Ullman stakes a claim on the borderline between the real and the imagined. Her people, mostly women waiting for something or someone, are mercurial consciousnesses flowing smoothly from past to future or recording temperatures that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

TERRITORIAL RIGHTS by Muriel Spark Coward, McCann &; Geoghegan; 240 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venetian Affair | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Twenty years and 15 novels later, Muriel Spark is as tricky as ever. At first appearance,her cool, elegant prose and witty characters seem comfortable within the traditional British comedy of manners. But with a twist of plot here and a turn of the psychological screw there, Spark sends her comedies careening off in deadlier directions. Wit becomes malice. Tea and crumpets mask terror and corruption. Ordinary lives turn bizarre and mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venetian Affair | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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