Word: gymnastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally a dancer and gymnast the 5'I" girl arrived at Harvard with dreams of rowing crew but was rejected because of her diminutive 78-pound frame. She instead coaxed the women's novice boat, but found the mixture of "cheerleading, coaching and steering" not active enough." Also, she says, "It's very In limiting to have eight people facing you You're got to have a lot of confidence to get through that...
...women themselves choose their own uniforms. "I've never sen cheerleaders in anything but skirts," she says. "Besides, our uniforms are hardly what you'd call racy. It's nothing close to the Dallas Cowboy girls. Most of the women say cheerleading requires skill. and a few--like gymnast Goodall--participate seriously in other sports...
...Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown that childless or one-child families, superficially suitable to working parents in the urban centers of European Russia, are not in the greater interest of society if we starve the future of Russian leaders"); Major Pribluda...
...spring of 1969, gymnast Brian Eisenberg was quoted as saying, "You can have the best equipment in the world but it will just rot without a coach...
Last week gymnast Ken Mendez '82 said, "We improved a lot over the year and went into the Ivies [Ivy League Championships] feeling great. But when we got there we saw how much the other teams had improved because they had coaches...