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...born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation. There is talk of getting it on the Olympics agenda by 1992. It is as ubiquitous as Moonies at an airport...
...past, however. It is the anniversary of almost everything. Americans have been pitched back into unstable regions of memory, back into Viet Nam and wartime Europe. Sometimes the experience has been disconcerting. The past only looks dead. Ronald Reagan, quintessential American and oldest President, did not seem entirely to grasp that. He displayed a curious insensitivity about the past, as if he did not know how important it is, or how dangerous it can be. As if he did not know that the past has monsters in it. His eyes accustomed to sunshine, Reagan did not peer carefully enough into...
...lifelong commitment? Is happy monogamy the ideal state of man? But Kramer and Hoffman are dramatists as much as propagandists. What makes As Is and Normal Heart so deeply affecting is that they portray anguish and doom in individual human terms and enable audiences of every sexual inclination to grasp a common bond of suffering and mortality. Oddly, yet persuasively on the stage, both plays are also very funny...
...longer. The reason: the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, more than 300 members strong, had just concluded its first plenary session under the leadership of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, 54. The outcome of the meeting, held behind closed doors last week, would provide some evidence of Gorbachev's grasp on the authority he inherited from the late Konstantin Chernenko on March...
...most contexts this claim would be merely trite; but John Hersey's crowning achievement spans such a wide, indeed almost terrifying, scope of history and large-scale disaster that no one pat conclusion may be drawn from it. The overall metaphor of "West meets East" helps the reader grasp the book, but many, many more ideas lie couched is every nook and cranny. China's cataclysmic passage into modernity deserves no less