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...Good evening, my fellow Americans. My good friend Frank is unable to come to the phone just now, but let me make one thing perfectly clear: he's busy taping something for me, and if you leave your name and number, he'll get right back to you." A pause, and the voice concludes: "I promise I won't erase the tape...
Beckford a Cambridge native, broke past Larrieu Smith in the final straightaway at the Indiana University Stadium, but the elder statesman of America's female distance runners kicked past the Crimson star in the final 10 meters to take the tape...
...faint whaps detectable in American League ballparks from time to time-they seem to be coming from under the stands-are soggy balls of adhesive tape being served up by clubhouse boys and batted flat against the tile walls by a semidiscarded old ballplayer working to keep his eye, even as the defensive halves of the innings go on without him. "Making a great play in the field always meant as much to me as a hit. I miss that," says Yaz, taking a deliberate drag from an omnipresent cigarette (he claims he never inhales). "I miss The Wall...
Prose can provide some fancy footwork too. To read Croce on Farrell- and others- is like having a tape library at hand. With a subject as difficult to describe as motion, that is quite a feat...
...addition to all the exercise, the brothers practice their act three times a week, trying to do the quad ten or 15 times each session. Most of the attempts are recorded on video tape, and when the acrobats are through, they watch what they have just done. Like football players after the game, they study their movements so that they can detect split-second errors in timing. They actually have six practice quads on tape, but the only stunts that are officially counted are those before a paying audience...