Word: skaters
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...public's eyes, skater Dorothy Hamill was "America's sweetheart." In 1976, she was the perky 19-year-old with the famous hairdo - "the wedge" - who won an Olympic gold medal for her dazzling figure skating. Her life seemed to glide as easily as her skates. But as Hamill, now 51 and the mother of a 19-year-old daughter, reveals in her frank new book, A Skating Life: My Story, that behind the scenes, she was in the grip of serious depression, which ran through her family. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hamill, who was in Minneapolis...
CLAIM TO FAME ONCE TRAINED TO BE AN OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER...
...life has been predicated on not getting what I hoped I would get," Wang confesses. She spent the first third of her life training to be an Olympic figure skater. Every waking hour was devoted to the sport; she studied classical ballet at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. When she didn't make the Olympic team, "I had to learn a big life lesson," she says, "which is that when you are so obsessed by something and you can no longer do it, you dust yourself off and keep going...
...wait-as in a late-night steak-knife commercial, there's more. Equally impressive are the works of skater video artist Shaun Gladwell, epic landscape photographer Rosemary Laing and conceptualist Christian Capurro, all invited by Biennale director Robert Storr to show independently in the Italian pavilion and Arsenale. Capurro, in particular, stopped traffic with his intriguing project, Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, which had invited hundreds of people to erase the pages of a 1986 copy of Vogue Hommes, clocking up over 260 hours and turning the magazine (by Capurro's calculation) into an $A11,349.18 work...
...Being an Olympic figure skater opened a lot more things for me,” she says. “Some of the boys would even drive me over to the rink at four in the morning...