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Readers of Red Smith feel a similar ache when the newspaper slaps down on the doorstep. They remember him as a friend. Taking a sauna in Helsinki, pub crawling in Melbourne, trout fishing in Montana (where he comes across a baby eagle "as big as Bobby Ussery, with a Durante nose"), he is gentle, funny and wise...
...their name. The harrumphing of the sportsmen is already being heard here and there; somehow it is not nice, as they see it, to let the general public in on the fact that women athletes can be just as nastily competitive and talk just as dirty in shower and sauna as their male counterparts. As for the movie's centering on a pair of pentathletes, Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) and Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly), who have not just a sweetly ambiguous lesbian encounter but a fullscale, move-in, move-out relationship-well, there goes what's left...
...down the wall." Lysergic Sturm und Drang like this has a direct kind of kindergarten appeal, especially if it is orchestrated like a cross between a Broadway overture and a band concert on the starship Enterprise. It is likely, indeed, that The Wall is succeeding more for the sonic sauna of its melodies than the depth of its lyrics. It is a record being attended to rather than absorbed, listened to rather than heard...
CRIMSON SPLASHES: The new Columbia pool stands as a monument to the ineptitude of the architects and construction firms that plan and build aquatic facilities. The Lions' home was built without any ventilation system whatsoever, creating a sauna atmosphere which, combined with the excess chlorine in the pool, made it very difficult for the swimmers to breathe...
...owned radio station, under orders from Mayor Edward Koch, started broadcasting the names of men convicted of patronizing prostitutes. In Minneapolis, a city noted for its civic probity, some leading citizens were unmasked as sometime Johns. The Minneapolis Star published an expose identifying 13 men who have frequented certain sauna baths and other places of prostitution. Six of them are key public figures who have played a role in shaping or enforcing antiprostitution laws. Others are policemen, including three former members of the vice squad, and their visits were not in the line of duty...