Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Altman is beyond all that. His view is Olympian. His camera, prowling like a house dick on roller skates, challenges you to find the crucial detail in each corner of an eight-minute opening shot. Pay attention, he says; be an adult. Watch the gorgeous gargoyles in the fun-house mirror, and you'll see more than the people who make movies stink. You might catch a glimpse of your own compromised self. Hey, babe, these days we're all players...
Harvard forward Ted Drury's accomplishments in hockey are well documneted . Captain of the 1990 Junior National Team. Ivy League (and team) rookie of the year in 1991. Olympian...
Forward Cory Gustafson said that his class of freshman has never played with Drury on the ice, but said that, the former Olympian was too attractive a choice to pass...
...Fonda's (pasta and sleep and plenty of female company); he predicted success, and for a while he transcended his predictions. By the time he accelerated through the final five gates of his second run in the giant slalom to ease past archrival Marc Girardelli and became the first Olympian skier to defend a championship, Tomba had left his signature in capital letters on the Games. Afterward, unshaven, in a baseball cap, with balloons around his neck, making comments about his prowess that his interpreter decided not to translate, "La Bomba" all but ensured a transition from the small screen...
...plans to star in Hollywood, courtesy of his new acquaintance, Sylvester Stallone. But his stalwart fans know there's more to his success than glitz, having followed Tomba's post- Calgary blues, his faltering in two world championships and his reconstruction under the severe tutelage of former Olympian Gustavo Thoeni. "I fought to win," said the husky Bolognese. "I gave the best of myself." Whether for giants like Tomba, upstarts like Aamodt or veterans like Fernandez Ochoa, the glamour has come with its fantasies and its fireworks, but only after years of grit...