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...Reds' bats are as mean as George Foster's countenance on the SI cover, they just may defeat Philadelphia for the National League title; but don't count on it. Just look at the match-ups: except for their second basemen, the talent is extremely close right down the line...
...twining reflections of silver flesh and gold hair, is perversely liturgical-a parody (done, one should recall, for a public whose cultural background was still Catholic) of medieval head reliquaries. The image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame sans Merci-enigmatic as a sphinx, cruelly indifferent as a Byzantine empress, wearing the features of the Divine Sarah and the aggressive glitter of a vintage Cadillac fender...
...door had been welded shut-from the inside. Behind it, a group of meticulous weekend robbers had pulled off what French headlines promptly dubbed le fric-frac du siècle (the heist of the century). In daring and imagination, it was in a class with some of the best heist movies ever made. The hoods-police estimate that ten people were involved-had used five tons of excavation and safecracking equipment to get at an estimated $10 million in currency and valuables stored in nine safes and 317 of the bank's 4,000 safe deposit boxes. Awed...
...Hall. At least that is what Winter Olympic officials might as well have called the sites where West German Skier Rosi Mittermaier and American Figure Skater Dorothy Hamill performed. Mittermaier Mountain was the steep slope of Axamer Lizum, where tens of thousands of Germans and Austrians chanted, "Rosi, Ro-si," every time their daredevil streaked by, which she did fast enough and often enough to win three medals: two gold and one silver. Hamill Hall was the Olympic Stadium, where seemingly every American in Austria turned out to cheer as their figure-skating favorite swept over the ice in flawless...
...days. Lissome Saigonese women wore hip-hugging jeans and colorful ao-dais; although the P.R.G. frowns on prostitution, streetwalkers and bar girls were still hawking their charms. American pop songs blared out from the jukeboxes of cafes and bars, and the old Thieves' Market on Bac Si Calumette Street was jammed with TV sets, cameras and transistor radios tak en from abandoned American...