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...afterward. But an hour later, hunched over a buffet lunch in a hotel restaurant with his teammates, he pulled his long face up from the table to do just one interview, with a TIME correspondent. "O.K., action!" this shyest and most decent of ski heroes yelled out, trying to cheer the others with him. He declined to blame the weather. "Sure it was windy, but it had no effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard for me. I was going so fast, and you never know on slalom." Soon the rare mistake...
...hears about, edged Percy by .01 sec. for the silver medal. Two inexperienced U.S. women, Edith Thys, 21, and Kristen Krone, 19, swallowed their Olympic jitters, held their tucks and made their turns, and though the cameras did not show their courage, finished a creditable 18th and 20th. A cheer or two, please, for the merely excellent...
...America amusingly roams over the glitzy terrain of contemporary consumerism. Lapham of course rephrases old adages. Radix malorum est cupiditas becomes "It isn't the money itself that causes the trouble, but rather the use of money as votive ritual and pagan ornament." Wealth's inability to provide lasting cheer is limned anew: "Believing that they can buy the future and make time stand still, the faithful fall victim to a nameless and stupefying dread...
...section came back with its own cheer. "Hey, Harvard, you may be in the Olympics, but we're in the pros." Guess Harvard forgot about Cornell's Joe Nieuwendyk, star rookie for the Calgary Flames...
...slalom and GS. Will Zurbriggen sweep five golds? No. That is so much more unlikely than when Killy, in '68, or Toni Sailer, in '56, swept all three events that it does not bear talking about. Tomba, a big, laughing fellow whose name is a drumbeat as his countrymen cheer him on, should take the slalom...