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After the compulsory exercises, the American women were in fourth place. But competing on the beam, three American women went up and three fell off, one of them twice. That did it. The team finished a disappointing sixth. Lamented Coach Linda Metheny Mulvihill: "Everybody tightened up. It was a little scary for the girls." The grande dame of the championships turned out to be Nelli Kim, 22, who saved Soviet honor by winning the all-around title. Her gold-medal performance in the floor exercise was women's gymnastics at its best, a mature blend of dance and acrobatics...
...that the gap had hurt his country's development program. Said he: "During the Cultural Revolution, many of the schools were closed, most of the spare-time sports academies were closed, and for five years there was no training for our gymnasts. Our men's team has one gymnast who is 30. He started gymnastics before the Gang of Four. The rest are very young, and they started after the troubles in China. But we have no one in the middle. So now we must do two years' training in a single year...
...stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects cameos by the Dead End Kids or maybe Anna May Wong...
Since Spielberg gives each actor the same small amount of screen time, the audience has no one to root for, and the stars have few chances to make a strong impression. Often the frothiest bits, such as the doubleentendre courtship of a secretary (Nancy Allen) and a young soldier (Tim Matheson), are suffocated by John Williams' excessive musical score. Only Belushi upstages the chaos around him, and even his repertoire of eating and belching jokes seems strained when separated from the scruffy, modest context of Animal House...
...goin' my way": so go the lyrics. What nook or dell of the U.S.A. in the shadow of the 1980s echoes them? Doubt and the rage of impotence stalk the land. People worry about whether they can gas up to cross a state, let alone found one. With three trusty assistants -his horse, his saddle and his gun-the cowboy hero of Oklahoma!, Curly (Laurence Guittard), is his own man. Where is the man who would dare or would be permitted to carve out his personal destiny that way today? There is a winning comic figure in Oklahoma...