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...cinematic conventions and, more important, a certain daring in the way the piece is written. Throughout their script Wilder and Diamond are ready to undercut their melodrama in order to make judgments ranging from the sly to the nasty about everything from the way to handle the funerals of world-class celebrities to the way the rest of us allow ourselves to be drawn into their self-created dramas. There is a splendid cheekiness of old age about this picture. Its creators seem to be saying. "This is the way we've always made them; this is what...
America's first world-class musician, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, built a precocious career on three isms: romanticism, pianism and giganticism. He had the dazzling keyboard technique of his European contemporaries, Liszt and Chopin, and a languid, aristocratic sexuality as well. Women vied for the white gloves he tossed aside before sitting down to play-and often for other favors afterward. His recitals, heavily laced with showpieces of his own composing, catered unabashedly to the florid, sentimental taste of the day. On occasion he disdained using one piano where ten or 14 would do. During the years before his death...
Harvard finished 15th in 1978. The return this season of all of last year's point-scorers (Bobby Hackett, Malcolm Cooper, and the 800-yd. freestyle relay team), and the addition of world-class backstroker Ron Raikula make the Crimson's chances of equaling or improving upon that performance appear solid...
KURT THOMAS. His fate is to be a world-class athlete still little known to his countrymen, but Kurt Thomas is not the retiring sort. This month alone, he will travel over 10,000 miles, crisscrossing the country to gymnastic competitions, exhibitions, banquets, television tapings and, this week, a White House reception in his honor. "In a major sport like basketball, Larry Bird can just say to everyone, 'Leave me alone. I'm going to make my million anyway,' " says Thomas. "But in a minor sport, it's what we need...
...Committee, which levied all of the penalties, also recommended that two of the swimmers, Tallman and Foreman, be banned from all AAU competition (not just international meets) for the duration of their two year terms. If the suspensions remain unchanged and unchallenged, not only will they prevent all four world-class swimmers from participating in the 1980 Olympic Games, they could put a severe damper on the ability of both Foreman and Tallman to continue in competitive swimming...