Word: schuss
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...detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down the Alps of dementia, as it did in Despair; and Fassbinder would watch, and show. He was a camera-one that hummed relentlessly until the end. More than a dozen Fassbinder films still await U.S. release...
...Winter Olympics was a watershed nonetheless: for the first time, the Games were televised daily. The telecasts introduced winter sports to the many Americans who did not know the difference between schuss and Schnee. The Games were such a European preserve that CBS, which paid a piddling $50,000 for the broadcast rights, was slow to line up sponsors for its 15 scheduled hours of live and taped reports. It was a far cry from the electronic blanket that today threatens to suffocate the Games. ABC paid $15.5 million for the rights to Lake Placid, and will spend nearly...
...avid skier, he takes a week off each year to schuss in the Tatras, dressed in baggy wool pants and old-style lace-up boots. His only concession to luxury is a pair of Head skis. Another friend, who calls him "one of the daredevil skiers in the Tatras,"adds, "He loves the thrill of it, the danger." Once, during a midwinter interview with TIME'S Bonn bureau chief, William Mader, Wojtyla gazed out the window of his residence and said, "I wish I could be out there now somewhere in the mountains, racing down into a valley...
Klammer, Italian Herbert Plank, 21, and Swiss Veteran Bernhard Russi, 27, should dominate the downhill schuss. "Go for maximum speed, but never force it," says Russi. Forcing it, however, is Klammer's credo. The straighter-and steeper-the course, the better Franz feels. He likes a sheer drop of ice, so Innsbruck's curvy Patscherkofel Trail is not ideal for him. Two Canadian daredevils, Dave Irwin and Ken Read, have recently scored upsets in European events...
...vacation week--a tribute to the drawing power of America's first skiing president. Thousands of people each day waited up to two hours for a gondola ride to the Mid-Vail ski bowl where Gerry Ford and a zillion Secret Service agents were learning the difference between a schuss and a wedel. Since Ford usually made his appearances between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.--in the height of the noonday sun--the sun decks outside the Mid-Vail ski lodge and the chairlift lines snaking at its base swelled during these hours. All those beautiful people, each with nearly...