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Having smiled on Conner on Tuesday, God was in a different mood for the fifth race, the next day. Just 45 min. before it was time to summon the yachts to the start, Liberty suffered a broken jumper strut, a hydraulically powered device that angles the mast to increase sail power. As a fast motorboat rushed a new part from dockside, New Yorkers Tom Rich and Scott Vogel struggled 60 ft. above the deck to cut away the faulty strut. The damage was repaired 12 min. before the start, but Liberty still had to raise a jib, and its crew...
...Begin's policies, the small (5 ft. 4 in.) man with deep-set eyes and a shock of gray-black hair may simply take to investing them with his distinct brand of quiet, guarded authority. "He is," says a Jerusalem editor, "the only man I know who can strut while he's sitting down...
...including five new ones by the Bee Gees). The raunchy zest of Tony's family feuds in the first film turns flat as a '50s malted here: he and his mother are soulful as saints. Most important, the movie lacks the naive vitality that seduced moviegoers to strut out of the theaters in 1978 and strut right back in again. Staying Alive begs every question but one: Can a movie close on opening...
Recording stars strut their stuff nonstop on fast-growing...
...main ingredients in MTV's programming are "video records" or "videos": current recordings illustrated by 3-or 4-min. videotapes (provided free to MTV by the record companies) in which rockers strut or act out their stuff. These are punctuated every few songs by the patter of veejays (video jocks). MTV also features some live concerts, a range of promotional graphics that are sometimes wittier than the musical segments surrounding them, and flashes of rock gossip ("Split Enz don't use a conditioner...