Word: spoiledness
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But the more sensible question may be: Why should the Games continue at all? After last week's announcements that the Soviet Union and East Germany were pulling out of the events, most American commentators sounded fed up with the whole business. Perhaps justifiably. Since 1968 every Olympics has...
Then there are the dollars, billions of them as well. When athletes who are supposedly amateurs stand to make fortunes in a pole vault, winning and profit become the same thing. Soon ends justify means. Soon other value misjudgments in society (military, ethical, intellectual) are reinforced. Soon everything is spoiled...
Rebecca Downs plays the shepherdess Phyllis, with whom all the peers fall in love. She has a petulant soprano voice that warbles beautifully while she reveals her character's spoiled naivetes. She spins a web that entraps not only the nobles and the half-mortal, Strephen (Jay Kelly), but also...
Arnett's convictions have made the 60-year-old former oil company geologist, who won a battlefield commission in the Marines during World War II, a hero to his fellow hunters. In Arnett, says National Rifle Association President Howard Pollock, who shares a Virginia apartment with his divorced buddy...
The success of On the Road very nearly spoiled it. Kuralt became a star CBS property, and he was pulled off the road time and again: at various times, he has anchored the network's morning, evening and Sunday shows. He will anchor as well as report on The...