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...little could detract from ABC's superb pictures of the events themselves. Nadia Comaneci performing her flawless routines in a trance of innocence. Olga Korbut turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...
...steal some scenes, James Valentine as "Gentlemanly Johnny" Burgoyne steals the show. The part of Burgoyne--a supercilious aristocrat straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan--is an ideal comic showcase, and Valentine makes the most of it, eliciting a laugh a line. Mugging outrageously and delivering his lines with superb timing, Valentine etches a sharp portrait of a British general with the humanity to rejoice in a defeat that prevents murder...
...Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, and though he vows he will not return to Russia until artists there get more freedom, he still has no plans to become an American. Says he: "I still think of the dacha in Moscow as my home." Much the same feeling inspires the superb dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who lives in New York City but says: "No other country in the world will be my home but Russia. My soul will always be a Russian...
...seem to decide on a characterization, and he is not up to the singing he has to do. Repeatedly he does something meant to be funny, and then looks out at the audience waiting for a laugh--which fails to materialize. What a comedown after the superb Autolycus of Fred Gwynne last summer and Earle Hyman in 1958! But Sarah-Jane Gwillim and Rebecca Sand are a much better Mopsa and Dorcas than were the 1975 shepherdesses...
...could make superb use of any idea or thing. At Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, he put "secular saints" in the stained-glass windows: Albert Einstein, John Glenn, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber and others. Early in his episcopate he read that Duke Ellington had composed a sacred concert for jazz, and promptly arranged for the Duke to give its world premiere at the cathedral. Nobody asked Ellington to join any memorial service to the bishop. But when the Duke heard there would be such a gathering at St. Clement's Church in Manhattan, he came...