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...Florence Griffith Joyner has always looked sensational on the track. In the 1984 Olympic trials she glistened in shimmering bodysuits, earning the nickname "Fluorescent Flo." In the Los Angeles Games, in which she won a silver medal in the 200 meters, she flaunted 6-in. fingernails, which didn't cause any apparent wind drag. At the world championships in Rome last year, she resembled an exotic alien in her hooded bodysuit. And at this year's Olympic trials in Indianapolis, she titillated fans with the "one-legger," which covers one limb in vivid color and leaves the other muscularly bare...
...Griffith Joyner's performance in the 100 meters that caused the real sensation at the trials. In the blistering sun (the track heated up to 115 degrees), Griffith Joyner atomized Evelyn Ashford's 1984 world record. Track aficionados found it hard to believe that this relative novice at 100 meters could lower the mark to 10.49 sec., a time that womankind was not supposed to reach until the next century...
...purest athletic effort by the drop. The most arcane sports, which include many of the Olympic events, are nearly always learned late and hard, in the U.S. after playing baseball and football for a while. Speed does come naturally to the beautiful racehorses of the running track, like Florence Griffith Joyner, though at the world-class level science kicks in and a specialized knowledge is required. Hobbled running backs reach uncertainly for their hamstrings in panic, but sprinters know every muscle according to its isolated throb, like a subtle note of music distinguishable from all the others by some slight...
...those outlaws of the past decade, those rebels against the deep-shag songwriting of mainstream Nashville, have become the '80s Establishment. There is a new pack out there now. Travis and Crowell. Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. K.T. Oslin and the O'Kanes and the supercharged Steve Earle. They are shaking all the wrinkles out of the music and ironing it into a different shape...
...Opry is well known to be the citadel of country conservatism -- an ornery character like Earle, more rock oriented and bolder lyrically, might use the word conformity -- but Travis will pay homage to tradition. Earle will joke about his "heavy-metal bluegrass" sound, and share, with Crowell and Griffith, a high regard for the personalized regionalism of the Texas singer- songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Oslin sings with a voice that has as much Broadway in it as Biloxi, and Kieran Kane of the O'Kanes will talk about a hypnotic love song of theirs called All Because of You just...