Word: sweethearted
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...Sweetheart's Dance...
...hotel lobbies and elevators, where the songsters break out in "woodshedding" -- the impromptu jam-session-like warbling of old chestnuts -- the camaraderie runs thick. At the Hyatt Regency, three old-timers search the crowd for a baritone. "Come over here, Jamie," one hollers. Let Me Call You Sweetheart suddenly gushes forth, halting a bellman in his tracks...
...Thompson says crisply, though his voice and manner have softened since 1984. He is known for a charming braggadocio that runs to self-aggrandizing T shirts. And if asked how he is, he will probably still reply, "A little short of fantastic." But marriage last year to his childhood sweetheart settled Thompson noticeably, and the birth of a daughter twelve weeks prematurely jumbled his regimen. "My little girl weighed less than a bag of sugar. It was incredible how tiny she was. Yet she was perfectly formed." He stopped training long enough to help worry her through the crisis...
Come the Summer Games, as sure as there will be botched routines and disputed scores, it is a fair bet that an agile sprite in a colorful leotard will emerge as a sweetheart of Seoul. For reasons as difficult to identify as the gradations of excellence that turn silver to gold, sports fans quadrennially bestow their affection on an elfin gymnast. Perhaps it is the daunting mix of skills: the daring speed and height of the vault, the elegance and precision of the balance beam, the strength and fluidity of the uneven parallel bars, the showmanship and gravity subversion...
...night a young woman called Kaija Keel walked into Gazzarri's with a girlfriend who had dated Olmos. The daughter of Actor Howard Keel, Kaija (pronounced Ki-ya) had just ended a romance with her high school sweetheart, Actor Jeff Bridges. Olmos found himself drawn to Kaija's "frankness and tremendous sense of independence...