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...grader viewing TV coverage of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, he saw his countryman Sawao Kato win the gold medal in gymnastics and thought, "I have to do something like that." He took up gymnastics immediately, but his progress was slowed by two successive and serious injuries: a torn ligament in his left leg and a severed Achilles tendon. His appearance in international meets was both belated and successful. He won his first gold medal on parallel bars at the 1981 world championships in Moscow. Last year in Budapest, he finished first on rings and second...
...that the two writers would not only survive their political nightmares but turn them into two of this year's best and most original novels. The Engineer of Human Souls, like Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (TIME, April 16), spins its story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. Yet what emerges is comedy-black, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly Middle European as the despairing wit of Prague's own Franz Kafka. Skvorecky has mixed history with high unseriousness before-notably in The Bass Saxophone, about a Czech youth playing in a German dance...
...unrelenting focus on Gaston (played by Chris Moore) is evident once the lights go up. He wanders awkardly through a room of amorphous red shapes. Gradually, the red cloth is torn off and the Renaud home emerges, but his disorientation in the still-alien household during this opening scene works to underscore Swartz' intention to keep the audience as close to Gaston as possible, revealing nothing to the spectator before it becomes directly significant for the central character...
...Although Spark's narration is usually smooth, the reader feels something of a jolt when the camera begins to follow Harvey's life exclusively. Here the author seems to have had an unclear idea of the nature of effect she wanted for her novel; she seems to have been torn between making it a cartoon and making it a movie. Perhaps this is not a great fault, for The Only Problem is eminently re-readable: warts often resemble freckles on a second perusal...
...Editor William Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said that he would dismiss a reporter for behavior like Reid's: "It is an indulgence we cannot afford in this business." Leonard Downie, who was named last week as managing editor of the Washington Post, said, "Shawn is apparently torn between personal loyalty to Reid and the standards for accuracy of his magazine." Declared Des Moines Register President Michael Gartner: "Anybody can be a good writer if you don't have to deal with the facts." To critics, it did not matter that Reid's deviations were mainly...