Word: racer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American ski racer had ever won a World Cup until Phil Mahre won three. On consecutive snowy days last week, he beat Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark and everyone else to the bottom of Colorado cliffs in Aspen and Vail, ensuring his third straight championship. "Europeans aren't such great travelers," Mahre said compassionately. "They miss their mountains." Stenmark misses his World Cups. "I'm disappointed," said the former king of the hill, winner of three overall titles before Mahre. "I think I can never win the World Cup again." So Mahre's dominance is complete...
...formerly young one, Frank Stella. It was in 1970 that Stella, at 33, became the youngest painter ever to be given a retrospective by New York City's Museum of Modern Art. To survive the envy and the scrutiny it brought, one needed the balance of a downhill racer, the skin of an alligator and the irony of Groucho Marx. Stella had all of these things...
...endorsement contracts that have made him perhaps the highest-paid athlete ($25 million since 1974) will have to be renegotiated. So much of Borg's 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. form is let for advertising space, on the court he looks almost like an Indy racer. "I won't turn in the racquet al together. I will play when I feel it. It is possible I will play some tournaments just for fun. But I will never play the big ones like Paris, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open...
LIKE A GOOD MANY science fiction movies. TimeRider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, introduces an intriguing idea and then systematically blows it. "Lyle Swann" is an off-road motorcycle racer who, while speeding across the desert during the "Baja 1000," suddenly finds himself transported back to the year 1977. A science research company, it seems, is conducting time travel experiments in the desert when Swann unwittingly passes into range of the time-travel equipment. The "science" of all of this, of course, seems improbable at best. (Even a believer in time travel might expect the research company to take...
BORN. To Annemarie Moser-Proll, 29, competitive, headstrong Austrian 1980 Olympic gold medalist skier and six-time World Cup winner, regarded by many as the greatest woman downhill racer of all time, and Herbert Moser, 32, a ski-equipment salesman: their first child, a girl. Name: Marion. Weight: 6 Ib. 12 oz. Although Moser-Proll once before came out of retirement, she now claims to have quit racing permanently...