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Just a year ago, Daley Thompson mailed a postcard to Bob Mathias, the only man ever to win two decathlon gold medals (in 1948 and 1952). "I'm going to get you," the card said with the jocular pointedness that is Thompson's singular way. Last week, after the two days and ten events that test for the title of world's greatest athlete, Thompson, 26, the cheeky, irrepressible winner of the 1980 decathlon, had made good on his challenge. He did not make it look easy, but he managed to make it look like...
...classicism of La Pittura Colta is a mere shell, and its vaunted erudition is as thin as a museum postcard. All it retains from the beaux-arts tradition is the desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among...
...title role in the Washington School of Ballet production of Cinderella. On the advice of her teachers, Shirley at 16 shifted to musical comedy and traveled to New York City where she tried out for a production of Oklahoma! that toured the boroughs. She was cast as the center postcard girl in the ballet by a director who addressed her as, "Hey! You with the legs...
Measures aimed at instituting postcard registration--which 20 other states allow--and placing deputy registrars in every high school failed last fall...
...early '70s Morley's painting was largely about violence happening to a spuriously calm surface. In Los Angeles Yellow Pages, 1971, a jagged rip appears in a huge Los Angeles phone-directory cover, thus eerily predicting the city's real 1971 earthquake. A postcard scene of Piccadilly Circus, 1973, is incoherently violated by blurts and blobs of paint; they include a quantity of gray that has leaked from a bunch of bags hanging from the top of the canvas. Morley invited some friends to shoot arrows into them and re lease the paint, and the arrows remain...