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...Leifer's Sports Stars (Doubleday; 256 pages; $35). The longtime photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME does justice both to basketball's Nate Archibald airborne and to baseball's Casey Stengel in repose. He gets deep inside the tangles of the football field. And when he photographs Mary Lou Retton, he catches her in mid-bounce, all flags flying. Athletics were always like this, but before Leifer, athletic photojournalism...
...technical skill of today's dancers is undeniable. The controlled dexterity and energy of break-dancers is marvelous--but it is marvelous like Mary Lou Retton's gymnastics are marvelous. Dance is becoming a sport, impressive and sometimes exciting. Sadder still, it is sometimes as inarticulate as a professional athlete. It is no longer the rhetoric of the body, the nuanced expression of the person in a physical poem. Even the truly great dancing shown from West Side Story and Sweet Charity lacks the stamp of personality which characterizes the dancing of Kelly and Astaire...
Imagine the same revealing pose with Burt Reynolds surrounded by Mary Lou Retton, Mary Decker, Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Nancy Hogshead in the buff. Had it been the female U.S. Olympic winners rather than the male, they might have been asked to give up their gold medals...
...neat, integrated neighborhood. She is not poor, but neither is she glad about the state of the nation. A New York Times survey last fall found that only 35% of blacks said they were "very patriotic," compared with 56% of whites. In Fairmont, W. Va., Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's home town, people are brimming with pride, of course. Yet unemployment is running at 10%, and as Mayor Gregory Hinton says, "Patriotism does not feed the family...
Whether bringing Lenny Skutnik, the Air Florida crash hero, to his State of the Union address at the Capitol or making time for a photo session with Retton and the other Olympic medalists, Reagan manages to come off like a kindly Uncle Sam. Even when his rhetoric turns maudlin and manipulative, he seems sincere, for the President believes the patriotic pieties simply and intensely. He gives himself goose bumps. In a speech at the American Legion convention two weeks ago, Reagan went right to the heart of the matter. "What a change from only a few years ago, when patriotism...