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...BICYCLE turned out to be the perfect vehicle for Yates. Its simplicity demands precision, but once mastered it has its own grace. Yates' pacing is as exacting as a racer's. His photography is graceful and clean, and his humor is light and fast. The satisfying control and craft of turning the wheels and the rush of flying down hills at 50 m.p.h. are matched in Yates' movie--it's simply exhilarating...
...ease of Coe's victory dumbfounded his rivals. "He didn't even go full blast," marveled Scott. A graduate this year (in economics) of Loughborough University of Technology, Coe was a late bloomer as a runner. Though a champion schoolboy racer, his world class potential did not appear until later. He ran a 3:57.7 mile in 1977, and he turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett...
...especially as it bounces off Paul Dooley's expert exasperation as his dad and the wry, wise patience of Barbara Barrie's lovely performance as his mother. But the kid is not totally off the wall. It turns out that he is a talented, self-taught bicycle racer and that his fondness for things Italiano is really a reflection of his admiration for that nation's pre-eminence in the sport. Cycling becomes more than a pastime for him. It becomes the thing around which he begins to organize his life, giving him a sense of purpose...
...wonder, then, that the Cannes Festival is a perfect subject for Director Michael Ritchie, a satirist who has previously assaulted such institutions as competitive sports (Downhill Racer), beauty pageants (Smile), political campaigns (The Candidate) and est (Semi-Tough). For his new film, An Almost Perfect Affair, Ritchie went to the 1978 festival to record the goings-on in all their vulgar glory. He eavesdrops on the manic deal making that transpires daily on the Carlton Hotel terrace, the pretentious black-tie screenings, the endless parade of female pulchritude for commercial purposes. Such real-life luminaries as Rona Barrett, Edy Williams...
Something about the Ivy Championships stirred the Women's swim team out of its seasonal slumber yesterday at Yale, because nearly every racer swam her fastest and four women qualified for the AIAW Nationals next month...