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Because he was not able to train intensively for the meet. Watson was "just not up to par" on parts of his dives. Walker said He added that meet judges were scoring entry into the water particularly closely, and Watson lost points on what is "typically his forte...
...running around," said Nicklaus, who had completed his own play and was watching a television monitor near the 18th green. "At first I thought he had flipped out, because I couldn't imagine anyone holing it from there." After Watson had plotted a careful par at 18, only happening to make the birdie putt for a two-shot victory, there was Nicklaus waiting at the last green. They walked off with their arms thrown around each other's shoulders. "I'm proud of you, I'm pleased for you," Nicklaus said. Asked to say what quality...
David Dalton, Stones analyst par excellance, looked back at the outset of the 1981 tour: "Like remote planets revolving in space, the Stones throughout the seventies continued to exert a magnetic pull known in physics as action at a distance. Their own removal from action infused their albums with a diffuse electric, reflective, anomalous and prolix sound...
Spielberg hopes that with E.T. and Poltergeist he will be taken seriously as a director of actors. He has every reason to be. In both pictures, the children are natural and winning. As the mother in Poltergeist, Jobeth Williams, who Spielberg predicts could some day be on a par with Jill Clayburgh, creates a surprisingly rounded character. She gives the movie audience an electrifying shiver the moment her character feels Carol Anne's spirit moving through her body. In E.T., Dee Wallace has some quietly affecting scenes as Elliott's mother, who cannot quite hide from her children...
...unofficial" China lurking behind the official facade of a prosperous socialist success story. Drawing on a wide and extensive series of interviews with students, dissidents, party members, reporters, and his own observations and insightful analysis. Butterfield shows us a China with a degree of control over its people on par with the Soviet Union. He shows us a China of uneven growth, with great pockets of poverty. He shows us a China where party cadres and their children enjoy tremendous perks and benefits--so much for the society's supposed egalitarianism. And he shows us a Chinese people tired...