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...very little to hear but your own heart racing. Until the closing ceremonies, when the nations who first entered the stadium as if parading before the galaxy, block by formal block, break ranks, and the competitors, chanting raucously off-key, embrace one another in the most disorderly conduct. Pure mush, of course. Cliches down the line. So why are you smiling...
...Mahre and Tamara McKinney, Figure Skaters Scott Hamilton, Rosalynn Sumners and Elaine Zayak, and Nordic Cross-Country Skier Bill Koch. Once the American public finds out that there is also a Nordic combined event and that it involves a 70-meter leap one day along with a 15-km mush the next, who will believe that just about the best in the world at the moment is someone from Colorado named Kerry Lynch? Vermonter Jeff Hastings, one of those ski-jumping birdmen only casually acquainted with gravity, won a World Cup event in December at Lake Placid. Not only...
...called into question. A lunch in St. Louis was canceled for lack of interest, and many seats were left empty at a $500-a-plate breakfast in Atlanta. At the last stop, in Albuquerque, Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings pronounced both the Glenn and Mondale campaigns to be "mush...
...daughter. "I told him that I was delighted that he had been punished for his sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...
City Lights is not silent in the strictest sense. Synchronized sound effects and music are used beginning with the very first sequence, where the talkies are burlesqued by horn sounds that make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between...