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...championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself and her sport into the spotlight four years ago as she flitted off with two gold medals of her own. And the romanticist's favorite will be Nadia Comaneci, a 14-year-old, 86-lb. Rumanian sprite who risks...
...Consulate Office and the American Embassy. These all tend to corroborate strong tensions between Pound and the Embassy, but they don't settle the question. Heymann simply adds another theory: Pound may have stayed because U.S. officials refused to grant a visa to Mary, his daughter by his mistress, Olga Rudge...
...butts struck the door of the apartment near Rapallo where Pound lived à trois with his wife Dorothy and his mistress of many years, a violinist named Olga Rudge. He was taken to a military stockade near Pisa and installed on death row in a steel cage 6 ft. square and open to all weathers. After three weeks of treatment designed to break the spirits of the most hardened criminals, Pound suffered a severe emotional breakdown...
...would wear thin ^ very quickly if the humor were not based on a sound knowledge of classical ballet. Working with a cartoonist's bold strokes, the Trock choreographers can come uncannily close to the original steps of the ballets they spoof. Peter Anastos, 28, (whose stage name is Olga Tchi-kaboumskaya) slyly transforms New York City Ballet's daisy chain into a spaghetti of arms and legs in his parody of Balanchine's Concerto Barocco. "Everyone who has seen Balanchine recognizes his chain of dancers weaving in and out and around each other," says Anastos...
...Sometimes I feel like dumping it all," Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut grumbled to a Russian reporter in her home town of Grodno. "I am getting sick and tired of gymnastics. I don't have enough strength." All that exercise has become more difficult: "I am 20, not 12." ECsides, she added, who cares about more medals? "I don't need them. I need the love of the public." And what would she like to do next? "I won't make a ballerina; I am too small. I dream of being an actress...