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Gildea won the event with an unspectacular time (for her) of 5:15.15, and Scherr followed with...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Sink B.C., 87-44 | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Jamie Hanes portrays a strong, if unspectacular Tom. He delivers best in Tom's narrator role, reflecting over the poetry of his own sentences, speaking softly, a clear ribbon of regret winding through the words. But at tims, Hanes' voice rings too smoothly, Shakespearean in tone, stagy. Tom is a writer, not an actor, and the immense presence that Hanes gives his character is oddly wrong, too smug, too fulsomely gesturing, too much exterior acting. It is a terrific role, at once subtle and obvious, but the actor's energetic anger, bitterness and sense of adventure must come from deep...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Both crews rowed graceful, if unspectacular, races, moved swiftly to the numerous Heinekens, and waited for the computer to spit out the result. Verdict: The Rude and Smooth finished 32nd; Alte Achter 33rd, 2.9 seconds behind. Youth, relatively speaking of course, had triumphed...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Battle of (Aging) Titans | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...minutes, much of this on extended drives that failed to produce scores. Most disturbing, however, was the ease with which a Dartmouth offense that had been doing a collective impersonation of Rip Van Winkle all season moved the ball both in the air and on the ground in an unspectacular fashion...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Defense's Doomsday | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Like Seattle Slew, Triple Crown winner in 1977, Spectacular Bid is an auction-bargain colt with a trainer who has never handled a big-time horse and a jockey whose skills have often been criticized. Owner Meyerhoff made an unspectacular bid of just $37,000 at the Keeneland Sales in the fall of 1977 for the sturdy son of Bold Bidder and grandson of Supersire Bold Ruler (his offspring have won six of the last nine Kentucky Derbies). Meyerhoff now spends $78,000 a year just for premiums on Spectacular Bid's $14 million insurance policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gun-Metal Gray Rolls-Royce | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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