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Although most running backs taper off at 30, Okoye will probably endure well beyond that benchmark because of his late start. "Christian hasn't taken the usual hammering through high school and college, and although he's 28, he has the football body of a 22-year-old," says his Azusa track mentor Terry Franson. Now negotiating for a new contract to replace his expiring, $150,000- a-year deal with the Chiefs, Okoye stands to get a handsome raise. But the fans' adulation has not yet gone to his head. Cho-Cho still wears his Azusa cap, emblazoned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kansas City's Gentle Giant | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel of two mismatched prison inmates that became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dreamscapes | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...were continuing our taper from the Alabama tourney, and we were expecting to swim fast," said Mia Costello, who placed first in the 100-meter breaststroke, 200-meter breaststroke and as a member of the medley relay. "And we got good swims out of everyone...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Aquawomen Destroy Brown at Blodgett Pool, 97-53 | 12/6/1989 | See Source »

MYSTERY OF THE ROSE BOUQUET. Jane Alexander and Anne Bancroft play a nurse and a patient in a taut psychological study by Manuel Puig, author of The Kiss of the Spider Woman, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...COUNTRY'S GOOD. The acerbic antimilitary play, named London's best last season, gets double exposure: the original Royal Court version is at the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, while the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles offers a U.S. premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 23, 1989 | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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