Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he's ready to hit the word processor, McGuane heads out to his office, a freestanding shed with a porch overlooking the banks of the Boulder River. By the door is a fishing rod he keeps just in case the trout start to jump. Fishing, McGuane explains, is just another way for him to stay in touch with the "spirit and poetry of the natural world." Maintaining a primal connection to the environment is essential to McGuane, for both his peace of mind and his work. "I feel strongly that writers need to be some place," he says...
Derrick Horner specializes in the 55- and 200-meter sprints and the long jump, and can also run the 400-meter dash. Last spring, Horner finished second in the 100-meter sprint at the Outdoor Championships. He also placed at last February's Heptagonal Championships...
Sophomore Ed Rios and junior John Brzezinski spark Harvard in the field events. Rios soars in the high jump and runs the 55-meter hurdles...
Sophomore Dean Lufkin, who specializes in the triple jump, finished first against B.C. with a distance of 46ft...
Alas, Powdermilk Bagels, the brand that gives shy New Yorkers the strength to jump over subway turnstiles, was not among the sponsors. Garrison Keillor, the wandering Minnesota minstrel whose Prairie Home Companion variety show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called Lake Wobegon, says he has put shyness behind him. Just as well. Keillor, whose new American Radio Company of the Air fills the old P.H.C. Saturday-evening slot (6 to 8 p.m. EST), is now a New Yorker himself, an unstrained and wildly germinating seed in the Big Applesauce. Like...