Word: davendra
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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Television, too, can easily turn into a nonstop highlight film. It misses life around the edges, where life is lived most colorfully. TV intensifies some moments by ignoring others. In the first heat of the 3,000-meter steeplechase last week, Davendra Singh of Fiji was quickly out of the picture. Quite literally. Within a few laps, Singh was already so far behind the pack that the camera didn't even follow him. Yet still he kept on going. One could imagine the view from his end: the dispiriting sight of distant bodies receding as he tried to catch them...
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