Word: rome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided to throw down the gauntlet, as it were, and go for the audience gold. Romary, a six-time member of the U.S. Olympic fencing team who in 1968 became the first woman to carry the U.S. flag at the opening ceremonies, traveled to world championships in Vienna and Rome, taking thousands of photographs, determined that in this Olympics, fencing would get "the elegance it deserves. It is the sport of kings. I want to see the blades move in the light against the black background!" One result: the shift from a more normal venue into a theater...
Which may be the reason ceremonies were invented: to hold time still by repeated practices, so that it would be difficult, or beside the point, to identify a particular date or age. Blink your eyes these next two weeks, and step out of history. Are we in London, Athens, Rome? Is that Carl Lewis or Coroebus of Elis? Time has no business in these events, which makes the Olympics a kind of illusion...
...good old days are here again. Thanks to the U.S. currency's continued record-breaking run, delighted Americans have been getting more for their money than in many years. Said New Yorker Joanna Silverblatt, 30, during a shopping spree in Rome: "I feel as though I'm at a candy store. I'm buying much more this year...
...Pertini followed in a snowmobile, puffing on his pipe and crying, "Santitá [Holiness], you whirl about like a swallow." Stopping at a mountain lodge for a lunch of pasta, beef and wine, John Paul toasted "a true friendship and an authentic human sentiment." Pertini then headed back to Rome, but the Pope stayed on the slopes for another day of enthusiastic downhilling. Reported Alpine Guide Franco Zani: "He skied at a level you could call intermediate-calm, slowly, turning well." Most important, Zani noted, "he did not fall...
...apple of his glowing mother's eye, but Nastassja Kinski's black-haired baby has the looks of the actress's Egyptian lover, Ibrahim Moussa, 37. Delivered by caesarean section in a Rome clinic three weeks ago, Aljosha Nakzynski will soon travel with his mother to join Moussa in Monte Carlo, where the talent agent and film producer has just switched careers and is learning the ropes as an international representative for the Bulgari jewelry company...