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Reigning Men's World Champion Vladimir Kovalev of the Soviet Union dropped out of the singles figure-skating competition, supposedly disabled by flu. The best American hope, Charlie Tickner, 26, is normally a stylish and energetic skater, but all week he seemed curiously flat. In the free-skating competition, he suffered some awkward technical problems with a triple jump, but his main difficulty seemed to involve something spiritual: he rarely displayed any of the fire and joy he has given his skating in recent years...
Thursday, Feb. 21, 8-11 p.m.: Men's figure skating reaches balletic heights in the free-skating competition. America's Charlie Tickner, 26, a former world champion and a stylish and explosive performer, takes on Britain's Robin Cousins, Europe's titleholder; East Germany's Jan Hoffmann and the Soviets' Vladimir Kovalev, the current world champion. Says Cousins of the showdown: "It depends upon who makes the mistakes under pressure." Eric Heiden skates in the 1,500 meters...
Tynan pays his respects to criticism in shrewd analyses of Richardson's performances and brief exegeses of Stoppard's plays. But mainly the author aims to please both his subjects and his readers. He is dazzled by Stoppard's stylish pessimism and flashy wordplay, yet wisely blocks him from the company of Beckett, Nabokov and Oscar Wilde. Deftly, Tynan puts his judgment of Stoppard in the book's foreword: "A uniquely inventive playwright who has more than once been within hailing distance of greatness." The piece itself is an adulatory delight, especially a scene in which...
Haydn, The Complete Symphonies (London, 48 LPs, 1971-75). Antal Dorati's stylish compilation of the 104 symphonies reveals the Papa Haydn of legend as a supremely virile innovator...
...great musicals of the past: Oklahoma!, The Most Happy Fella, West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Camelot. The musical version of Peter Pan, which first played on Broadway in 1954, does not belong in that exalted company. But it is a rare treat nonetheless, and this stylish, spirited revival ought to set a standard for all those that follow...