Word: acrobatic
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Simply Gorgeous. The "trial"-a kind of rally for motorcycles*-is a punishing test of bike-handling skill that requires the agility of an acrobat, the know-how of a mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both...
...field is just one major requirement for the big-league baseball umpire, whose job ranks among the most demanding, the least appreciated and the loneliest in organized sport. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations...
Enroll Garner: Dreamstreet (ABC-Paramount). The first recording in almost three years by the distinguished acrobat whose feats must be heard to be disbelieved. Pianist Garner still has more than his fair share of fingers, but their presence often stupefies rather than charms. A notable exception: the trip-hammered, polyrhythmic ride he gives to the Rodgers-Hart lady who was a tramp...
Jane Quigley, every bit as versatile as Mr. Barstow, is a quite magnificently scornful Polish Lady (a circus acrobat as well), and if her accent often thickens dangerously, her gusto becomes almost unbounded. Richard Hornby, the alternately tearful and sternly moral Gunner, also occasionally lapses from his proper voice (a deadly Cockney whine); but the Peter Sellers mustache and 'onest workman cringe that he adopts are entirely successful--this is compentent character interpretation indeed...
...scored with driving lay-ups. He hit from the outside. His huge hand flashed out of melees under the hoop to tap in rebounds. Agile as an acrobat, he seemed to hang suspended in mid-air while he faked his man, then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National...