Word: racer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUPPOSE IT had to happen eventually. Someone had to combine the making-of-a-champion motif of Downhill Racer with the sentimental mawkishness of Love Story, and set the whole thing inside Maple Leaf Gardens. The result is what you might expect...
...Crimson hopes rest on the performance of sophomore Ben Steele, the only class A racer on the team. Last week at Middlebury, Steele finished second in the slalom combined and third in overall alpine events...
...been acquired by British and American firms. The Austrian skimakers, who for the most part are the sons of the cartmakers and carpenters who started the business, have thus far resisted the temptation to sell out. "I am worth more every day," boasts "Toni" Arnsteiner, himself a former ski racer. "So why should I sell?" He foresees, however, that "in a few years, ten manufacturers will remain the world over. The problem is to be among them...
...assortment of styles that range from self-parody to self-abuse. Jerry Orbach makes the most soporific leading man since Sonny Tufts, and the grandiose incompetence of Jo Van Fleet as the foul-mouthed Big Momma would be hard to equal. However, Robert De Niro, as a kleptomaniacal bicycle racer, and Leigh Taylor-Young as his perennially startled paramour, somehow manage to bring a small degree of charm and reality to the lamentable goings...
Violetta by Erich Hölle. 39 pages. Harvey House. $3.95. A svelte Belle Epoque horseless carriage rolls down through the century, from snug childhood as a famous racer to old age in a vintage car museum. Automotive anthropomorphism at its most arch, but well preserved...