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...beauty is motion, and motion does not last. Most things ephemeral have limited appeal, but the heart of the Olympics is that things shine for a moment and no more. Did Dwight Stones really clear that bar at 7 ft. 8 in.? One saw it happen a second ago. One saw it again on instant replay. Yet the jump no longer exists, nor can it return. Billy Mills, who won the 10,000-meter run in Tokyo, said, "For one fleeting moment an athlete will know he or she is the best in the world. Then the moment is gone...
Regarding temperament, no athlete of the past eight years has logged more success or felt less appreciated than Edwin Moses, 28. After he and Mike Shine brought the U.S. both the gold and the silver in the 400-meter hurdles at Montreal in 1976, their joyous victory lap faded quickly. "I had a gold medal and a world record," Moses says, "but guys who had never competed in the Olympics were getting top billing over me." He reacted badly, and the popular descriptions of him in press accounts became "sullen" and "angry...
...keeps you out of trouble. The stranger had been reading the newspaper, the Marshall Mountain Wave. Correspondent Sybel Smiley, writing the news from Nubbin Hill, had noted that "we have some very muddy roads again. There isn't any bottom to anywhere now. The sun is trying to shine some, which looks good." Correspondent Rosie Ragland from over at Red Oak reported that "Pearl Davis and I purchased 15 hens from Mary Redman Saturday night." For the record, Ragland also wrote: "Norma Patterson has the shingles." Mrs. Hartley Williams' word from Archey Valley was "I am feeling some...
...Nightline," and in fact, that he discouraged talk of his replacing the late Frank Reynolds as anchor of "World News Tonight." "I don't think Ted believes that 7 p.m. would be particularly advantageous to him." Shales says, because it would not allow Koppel's interviewing skills to shine...
...much relentless ingenuity. They broke out by going back. Lucas proved with the Star Wars trilogy that the Old Hollywood formula of moviemaking, cagily updated, could work wonders at the box office and in the toy store. His movies are Hardy Boys tales for the space age: they shine like Plexiglas, are as durable as Teflon and have the aftertaste of Tang. Spielberg has tapped into the moviegoer's childlike imagination with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, E.T. and his upcoming production of Gremlins-fables of the sort that touch every eight-year-old just before...