Word: witts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Katarina Witt is the most extreme example in recent memory, with a ballerina's body and a model's features; her performance Saturday night made the most of her seductive looks. Swathed in a red dress with black sequins, her face layered with an inch of rouge and at least as much eyeshadow, Witt cut a striking figure as she skated onto the ice. After a few minor spins and jumps she entered the second sequence of her program, the memorable part--she kicked, she tossed her head, she waved her arms, she smiled. She looked compelling and sexy...
...even lovely, long-haired Peggy Fleming pointed out that all of a minute-and-a-half went by without a major athletic move. By the end of the five-minute performance, Witt had executed an unambitious number of triple-jumps. But she had glided dramatically down to the ice, lying dead and beautiful, a perfectly acted Carmen. That performance won her the gold...
With three trips left to the mountain, regal Zurbriggen expects to rise again. On the Games' penultimate night, Figure Skater Katarina Witt will look to become the queen. At an audience that attracted the most notetakers of the week, the East German champion told her sweet stories in English and German: "I started skating when I was five years old, and my mummy went to the rink with me, and the coach put skates on me. It was quite wet on the ice . . . My mummy said, if I fall, my tights are going to get wet. So maybe that...
...skater's performance or reputation? Put another way, Are judges chicken to have egg on their faces? During the long and short programs, they put great weight on the reputation of a contestant. A neophyte skater may turn in a string of leaps and spins more dazzling than Katarina Witt's smile and still get lower marks than the reigning queen of the rink. The practice cuts across political affiliations. A Soviet judge will give a prominent American higher marks than a fledgling Russian who skates a comparable program. And vice versa. No matter how talented, all newcomers are always...
...cowboys, is set to sing a few songs and, naturally, tell some lies. -- America' s Sweetheart: Debi Thomas, premed student and premeditated perfectionist, plans to reclaim the women' s skating gold for the U. S. But she will have to take it away from East Germany' s enchanting Katarina Witt. -- Two Brians: Orser of Canada and Boitano of the U. S. are pretty good friends and the very best of the men skaters. -- Red, White and Dreams: A picture essay offers a look at American competitors from world- record speed skaters to a luger and a biathlete with chances...