Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today the toes are still pointed, but innovations in ancient gymnastics equipment have virtually freed the athletes from gravity, thus making physical pyrotechnics the premiere element of the sport. The mats on which gymnasts tumble are no longer mere padding to protect against injury, but launching pads mounted on springs. The extra oomph affords additional milliseconds of hang time during which gymnasts can twist and twirl through the same maneuvers as a high diver's. For male gymnasts, wooden dowels inserted into their leather handgrips allow a lock-grip on the high bar and make possible daring-young...
While many environmentalists and health advocates had urged an outright ban on the toxic element, Ruckelshaus said that some lead was needed to protect the engines in older cars. Lead helps lubricate valves and reduce engine knock...
During a race any time spent in the air is lost, as the bike is merely floating, not moving ahead. So drivers try to stay on the ground as much as possible. Promoters, though, try to play up the sport's dangerous in-the-air element. The most exciting part of this course was a large jump called the catapult; Diet Coke gives the driver who jumps the farthest a $1000 bonus. The fans love it, but it reinforces the idea that motocross is a show and not a sport...
These two threads of plot are linked by the common element of fear. Whites are made edgy by the unidentified invader in ways that they cannot or will not understand: "All the residents of the suburbs wanted was for the animal to be confined in its appropriate place, that's all, zoo or even circus. They were prepared to pay for this to be done." Gordimer rarely allows herself passages of such clear and cutting satire. Whites in South Africa have already paid, to keep the majority of blacks in an "appropriate" place, a price yet to be reckoned...
...claim. Writing for a 7-to-2 majority, Justice John Paul Stevens found that however worthy the N.C.A.A. might be, it had violated the federal antitrust laws. Dissenting Justice Byron White, a former football All-America at the University of Colorado, argued that the TV plan was just one element in a larger N.C.A.A. structure designed to discourage the "professionalization" of intercollegiate sports. Stevens saw the action differently. Without the N.C.A.A. restrictions, many more games would be broadcast by local stations, he observed. "Individual competitors lose their freedom to compete. Price is higher and output lower than they would otherwise...