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...hotel room; now he relies on naps in transit. Lately, Hart's handlers have tried to schedule only three major campaign events a day. "It's surprising to me," says Henkel, "that Gary is holding up so well, that his psyche is largely intact after this roller-coaster ride...
...remembered that she was two and not 10. Colors were simply colors, and she always got mad when my pictures--best described as surrealist blotches--looked better than hers, so she made me give my picture to her which she promptly wrote her name on. She also liked to roller-skate--her only problem was that she liked putting on the skates but was scared to move afterwards...
...Rink, the Kander-Ebb musical that opened last week on Broadway, is set on the ragged fringe of the New York show-biz world: in a Coney Island of the mind where Anna Antonelli's roller-skating rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of life with her runaway Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. Terrence McNally's script might suggest a domestic minidrama swathed in poignancy-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn mixed with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin...
Vairo learned the game on the streets of Brooklyn. Literally. He played with roller skates on asphalt, using a roll of friction tape for a puck. Until he was 21, Vairo had never put on ice skates. But soon he was hanging around New York Rangers practice sessions and reading anything he could find on the subject. By 1972 he had saved enough money to send himself to Moscow, the mecca of European hockey. "Soviet teams made magic with the puck," Vairo says. "Their tempo was quick, and they were always in superb condition. I figured this was the model...
...coaches, but this one favors its owner. Davis is the only proprietor in the N.F.L. who does not feign piety, and he is one of just two (Cincinnati's Paul Brown is the other) whose understanding of the game is profound. A middle-age rock 'n' roller in a '50s hairdo and a black leather jacket, Davis casts a slim shadow, but it managed to cover elephantine Coach John Madden for ten years. After five seasons, including the championship year of 1980, current Head Coach Tom Flores remains a minor presence...