Word: swiftness
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...pratfalls of riders and weight lifters, the poignant stumbles of pentathlon runners in the home stretch, it has shown that sports are not as easy as the best athletes make them look. With the utter clarity of its new technique, super-slow-motion, it may revolutionize coverage of some swift-paced sports...
...Clark Gable's shoe prints on a Hollywood sidewalk, another woman might prove herself Lana Turner's equal in some way on the same boulevard. But these souls in the Coliseum had more action in their dreams: they had beaten the wind in the arena of the swift. Having achieved that, they would step back into the throng and go about their jobs...
Feminism has scored no more spectacular triumph since women won the right to vote. Even with universal suffrage, American women had enjoyed, until last Thursday, nothing more than the right to elect a man to the White House. With one swift stroke, however, the Democrats have made it possible for women to enter the final phase of their enfranchisement. Win or lose in November, Geraldine Ferraro is now emblematic of the truest, purest facet of the American dream: that every citizen is entitled to an equal chance. In this version of the dream, the idea is that every child...
...announced he was quitting the job he had held since 1977. "I cannot carry on," he said simply. Aides and friends alike described him as darkly depressed by the 1982 death of his wife Aliza and the continuing toll of a war that was supposed to have been a swift success. Toward the end of his tenure, when a caller complimented him on the invasion of Lebanon, he could only murmur, "But the casualties, the casualties...
...those who like to see who's playing the music they're paid to see, Jonathan Swift's Pub on JFK St.--right in the Square--will have some of the best music in the city, though the club's predilection for second-rate flower-power music on occasionally be a snoozer. Mixed in with the old folkies and local clone bands will be some goodies, including Steve Forbert (June 25), Koko Taylor (June 28), and local preppies the Sex Execs (June29...