Word: pedalers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cyclists confronted the highly favored West Germans in the semis. The Germans, however, started too fast and lost a fatigued rider; the U.S. lapped the hapless survivors to win. The final, against a blistering Australian squad, saw the tables turned. The U.S.'s Dave Grylls' pedal strap came loose and he dropped out. The remaining Americans, pumping pure adrenaline, could not overcome the Aussies, and settled for silver. The sprint final, though, was all American...
RHINESTONE She (Dolly Parton) is a country singer itching to escape from her predatory manager. He (Sylvester Stallone) is a Noo Yawk cab driver with both feet recklessly pressed on the accelerator pedal of life. East is East and South is South and never the twang shall meet, right? Not if you are familiar with Hollywood's perennial passion for cross-pollinating ethnic strains. Before you can say "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys," the country kitten has made a bet with her manager that in two weeks she can turn this city rat into a down-home singing...
...There's no doubt about it. She's lost fitness," notes Sevene. But engineers quickly rigged a special bicycle that she can pedal with her hands even while she is still in bed. The coach hopes that Benoit will begin running this week and get in three 14-mile runs before the women's Olympic trials at the end of next week. Says Sevene: "The doctors say it's going to be tight. But if she can pull it off, it's a hell of a story." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles
...Director Kenneth Frankel's austere revival, his three stars play Pinter's witty melodies and ironic rhythms with graceful professionalism. If they soft-pedal the play's bass line of sexual tension, one is grateful for a clear rendering of the text. It encourages one to conjure with the work of postmodernism's most hypnotic theatrical voice...
Crookes, who coordinates services for undergraduates with disabilities, said he wrote the police suggesting stringent measures after the tire of a student's wheelchair was punctured by the pedal of a parked bike...