Word: crammed
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...hometown aficionados to a 10,000-meter time of 30:59.42, a vast 14.36 sec. better than the old record. Next, Morocco's Said Aouita just out-dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking...
...broke smoothly and whirled through the first two laps in perfect position just behind the early leaders with Coe right on Cram's back. Coe stayed with his younger rival through the third lap, and for a moment, at the bell for the final lap, Coe seemed to be gaining. But then Cram, whose shock of curly blond hair, perfect legs and finely sculpted features give him the look of a Greek demigod, began to turn up the burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying...
...running as fast as I was," Coe said later to the London Daily Mail, "and there's this guy ahead so relaxed he can look behind, you know you're in trouble." When the time went up, Cram had broken Coe's record by a full 1.02 sec. in an awesome 3:46.31. Awesome to all but Cram apparently. "With a better third lap I could have done 3:45," he told reporters. Hubris? Just a true hero's Olympian standards. "If I feel that I can't improve on my form," Cram said, "then I will pack...
...first blush, this assertion seems to drop conventional wisdom on its head. Everyone knows that the novel is literature's great grab bag, shapeless enough to accommodate nearly everything a writer wants to cram into it. Short stories allow little wasted motion. But Narayan, 78, turns out to be a perfectly accurate commentator on his own methods. Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, while shorter than most novels, is a riotous mosaic of small details in which nothing, finally, seems irrelevant...
...misery was absent last week, and so it may not be a complete coincidence that baseball's strike was short-lived. Over an amazing prestrike weekend, baseball's Rod Carew, Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, football's Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson and Roger Staubach, a runner named Steve Cram, a tennis player named Boris Becker and an amateur golfer named Scott Verplank had got in the first word, not for the players or the owners but for the games: excellence. On dark occasions in sports, the President and both houses of Congress can vouch for this inessential industry...