Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team finances its own trips and all expenses, while Harvard covers admission fees. The team is officially considered a club sport...
Some analysis maintain that even in primaries, the amount of strategic voting is relatively small. "The public polls which appear throughout the media are, by and large, a product of the spectator sport element of politics," says Geoffrey D. Garin '75, president of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a private polling company, whose clients include Democratic frontrunner Walter F. Mondale...
Torvill, 26, and Dean, 25, have carried ice dancing singlehanded from the amiable charms of the ballroom to the aesthetic splendor of ballet. Never was their vision of the sport's potential as clear as it was in this Olympian performance. Twice before in competition they had received nine 6.0 scores on their second marks for artistic impression, but at Sarajevo they added three 6.0s in the scores for composition or technical merit. They did it despite choosing music, Ravel's Bolero, that does not contain a change of tempo, supposedly a requirement. But to Torvill...
...which difficult athletic feats are made to appear effortless, though the beat is so slow that the skaters can never build momentum. Like the music, the movements are eerily erotic and mesmerizing, and even for favorites, the program was a gamble. In winning, Torvill and Dean elevated an entire sport. Afterward, Dean brushed aside the mutters about single-tempo selection: "Maybe it's something that hasn't been done before," he said, "but that's what we're all about, trying to be inventive and to do different things. We didn't know...
...Bitterly disappointed, Blumberg and Seibert plan to retire. Said Seibert: "I still feel that what we did was important and is the right direction for ice dancing to follow. But if only Torvill and Dean can do it, then how is anybody else to climb any higher, expand the sport any further...