Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection?

To the Editors:

I've always heard "nobody's perfect." Maybe Nadia Comaneci has disproved that [Aug. 2].

Teresa Thomason Madison, III.

She's too perfect! Not once did Nadia cry or giggle or show emotion.

Anita Gonzalez Houston

To find one who is so young, and who has achieved so much, seemingly unable to glory in her accomplishments is tragic.

Paula Dover San Francisco

You can have that "perfect" robot.

I prefer the more emotional, fragile and human Olga.

No perfect score can ever light up a stadium like the smile of Olga Korbut.

Janice Chlopowicz Tucson, Ariz.

I suggest...

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