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...slicker fingernails, but Brisco-Hooks the happier feet. As she screeched through the curve, her 21.81 time made it two Olympic records for her, and the U.S. won the women's 4-by-400 relay on the last day of competition. Her trademark bulky glasses were discarded for contact lenses; a row of braided bangs fell across her forehead like a beaded door hanging. She ran like a cougar, like Evelyn Ashford...
...been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last week when Ross presented Koch with a $250,000 check from her own pocket. "It's for the kids," said the singer, who donned an orange city-department-of-parks slicker to show that there were no hard feelings. Said Parks Commissioner Henry Stern: "For $250,000 you can get a small but exquisite playground." There was a time when it would buy a whole park...
...major repertory companies are concentrating their energies on the Bard and other English classic playwrights. The Royal Shakespeare Company has mounted a characteristically bustling production of Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, a feminist comedy from 1610, starring Helen Mirren and Jonathan Hyde. The National Theater, the slicker and more conventional of the rep houses, is presenting Sheridan's The Rivals, with sumptuous scenery by John Gunter, all of it devoured by a cast that includes Michael Hordern and Tim Curry. Also at the National: Eduardo de Filippo's Inner Voices, starring that foxy grandpa...
...temper. At 70, an unstooped 6 ft. 2 in., she strides and chops as energetically as the Smith College basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been prodigally "planted" on the scene that morning...
...commercial network's entry, headed by Peter Jay, a former British Ambassador to the U.S., arrived Feb. 1 with enough razzle-dazzle to cause some sleepy viewers to pull a pillow over their heads. TV-am produces a glitzy transplant of American morning television, slicker and faster-paced than its placid competitor. TV-am's morning programs have an annual budget of $12.4 million, as opposed to Breakfast Time's $9 million. According to Jay, TV-am's task is "to demystify the news." But as of the inaugural week the direction of the program...