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Miracle. The word hangs around the necks of the '84 squad like a talisman and an albatross. The new team has traded in the pre-Olympic obscurity of their gold-medal predecessors for celebrity with an uneasy edge-avid media attention, sold-out exhibition games and an offer to pose en masse for Vogue-all in the reckless anticipation that miracles can strike twice. It puts unholy pressure on the young skaters, some of whom had hardly begun shaving four years ago, when Jim Craig, Mark Johnson and the rest were working their legerdemain at Lake Placid...
Frank Stella, whose sparse, geometric abstract paintings have influenced current trends in the medium for over 25 years, lectured on the use of painterly space before a sold-out Sanders Theater audience last night...
...four years, a level of dismalness that includes four losses in a row, five of six, and 10 of 17. The Celtics' latest debacle was 105-100 loss to Philadelphia two nights ago, and since they don't deserve a rest, Boston will face the Nets tonight in a sold-out Garden. The Celtics stand three games ahead of New Jersey...
...SMALL TOWN in every city-dweller's mind lies just beyond the horizon of possibility. Somewhere past the dense cloud of Urbanity, past subways and corporations, past designer jeans and city cowboys, past Dan Rather, issues and answers, terrorists, rallies, sold-out Rolling Stones tours and French Maitred's, beyond all that a sleepy town of backroad America lies waiting. Ah, to chuck the city life forever--Green Acres. We Are There! Dream though they may of the Great Adventure, few people ever take the risk...
During weeks of sold-out preview performances, Henning bolstered the show with with more effects than he could shake a wand at. Many of them had never been seen since the days of Houdini and Blackstone; none has ever been performed so adroitly. Even fellow magicians gaped at Merlin's entrance in a five-inch bubble that mysteriously expanded to life size before the wizard emerged. The other illusions were no less astonishing. On center stage, Debby instantaneously vanished...