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...Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly in this offbeat satire of suburban L.A. life...
...bear to watch), only Lewis, 22, seemed unawed by the regimen of so many heats under so much pressure. "I'm not saying it's easy," he announced at the outset, "but it's attainable. I'm ready to roll." He won the 100-meter dash in 10.06 with his familiar finishing crescendo, over Football Players Sam Graddy of Tennessee and Ron Brown, soon of the Los Angeles Rams. So the 4 X 100-meter relay team was set, too, in this likely order: Graddy leading off, Brown the second leg, Calvin Smith the third, Lewis...
Rosovsky drags Spence to the myriad committee meetings that fill his calendar, but he has not found the transition to be like a final dash to the finish line. "It's more like a relay race," says Rosovsky. "I'm still running, and I'm getting ready to pass the baton to Michael Spence, and then he'll start running...
...entered my freshman year like an anxious commuter trying to catch the subway-the kind you see all the time on the Red Line, the ones who, hearing any noise from the subway tunnel-closing doors or turning wheels or the wheezing sound of rushing air-dash down the steps, sure that they will miss the train. My caller was stopping already, before he had even paid for his token, to look at the map and decide how to get where he was going...
Mike Okwu, absent from much of this year's indoor competition, returned to win the 100-meter dash in 11.59, 0.03 seconds ahead of Northeastern's Lawrence Hooker...