Word: nadia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olga. Nadia. Mary Lou. Their first names alone are the way we remember them, the last names seemingly too tedious and weighty for ones so petite. Olga Korbut was the scrawny, pig-tailed brunet at the 1972 Munich Games who, with her double-jointed contortions and infectious grin, convinced us that human hearts beat within the bodies of robotic Soviet athletes. Four years later at the Montreal Games, it was a long-limbed brooding Rumanian, Nadia Comaneci, who stole hearts by posting the first perfect 10s ever in Olympic gymnastics competition. Then in Los Angeles in 1984, American Mary...
...audience happy. Part of her secret may be that glorious smile. She has superb technique based on first-rate ballet training, but she makes even a triple throw look spontaneous. She has the innocence and sheer energy that enable her, like earlier East bloc sweethearts Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci, to slay hearts on both sides of the Great Power divide...
Harvard still had some chances to send the game into overtime. On a Harvard penalty corner with six minutes remaining, Cornell's Nadia Glucksberg deflected a potential goal. In the final minute of the game, Lisa Cutone's shot was wide after Ersek brought the ball into the circle...
...students. It is time to stop referring to a past scandal every time CMES is mentioned, and to start invoking the support of the Harvard community for this integral and important part of the University. Krisen Brustad Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Sarah Chayes History and Middle Eastern Studies Nadia El-Cheikh History and Middle Eastern Studies
...phew! As played by Kim Basinger, Nadia lacks what farce needs, irresistible nuttiness. She is simply a whiner. Director Edwards (The Party, S.O.B.) is a great farceur, and he has plenty of classic comic conventions to play with: elegant cars and parties to crash, a decorous wedding to subvert. But glum Nadia defeats him. A film promising knockout knockabout comedy finally seems merely knocked...