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Television edits ruthlessly: cameras record every leap and thrust, but only one event at a time shows up in the living room. The gymnastics just ended; the sprinters are on; next is volleyball. That serial focus is misleading, TV's accommodation to our one-track minds. For the Olympics are happening all at once and all over the place. Only the epicenter is in Los Angeles. A slick L.A. cheer infuses the whole-banners the color of coral, the velodrome's playful curves-but not even the city's flabbergasting sprawl could encompass this Olympics' venues...
...said the thrust would remain the same. "Basically it's a course on the institutions of the criminal justice system--what the police do, for instance, or what the prosecutors do," he explained...
Heroes must be part of the answer. There are those like Jordan, Mary Decker, Carl Lewis who enter the Olympics with greatness already thrust upon them; one will test their performances against their reputations. Better still, sudden heroes always seem to emerge and establish themselves, often in sports one has dismissed as boring or has paid no attention to before. Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci created gymnastics for most Americans, not because Americans never heard of gymnastics, but because they had not seen the sport performed by virtuosos. A subtle surprise of the Olympics is how individuals can transform...
Under normal circumstances, few of those paying house calls to Mondale would even have made the first cut. But tokenism carries the day, as completely untested local politicians are yanked out of obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight. Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins gets consideration because of her great record in the state house God no, she only took office this year. She's being considered because she's the only Democratic woman governor in the country...
...late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week in Philadel phia with a cast led by Saturday Night Live Veteran Bill Irwin, 34, a practiced stage clown. "It's a pretty garbled satire," admits Irwin, "but it has a wonderful thrust." The Inquirer critic liked Irwin and the rest of the cast, but the play, he thought, did not survive the reconstructive surgery...