Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson triumphs, Hackett's was the most heartening. Shaking off the virus that had shackled him the first two days, the irrepressible distance man seized the lead in the first lap of swimming's equivalent to the mile and gradually built up a ten-second victory margin...
Beckford stayed on the shoulder of Villanova's Bridig Leddy until the last lap of the mile run, when she burst ahead to win in 4:32.3, a new national collegiate indoor record. Beckford's blistering pace knocked more than 16 seconds off the old Eastern record and more than 12 seconds off the Harvard facility record. Beckford now stands as the fourth fastest indoor miler in the world behind American stars Mary Decker and Francie Larrieu and Russian racer Zmira Zatseva...
...truths and half-truths that Fosse tears out of his breast do not necessarily constitute art. Fosse, like Woody Allen, puts his audience in the psychoanalyst's chair, shoveling random associations and experiences onto the lap of the innocent viewer. If I wanted to play doctor instead of critic, I could probably speculate about Fosse's distortion, fantasy and death-wishing. But I won't. It's the responsibility of the artist to supply his audience with some sort of coherent overview--even if it's a warped overview, even if he is creating in a desperate attempt to stave...
...screen. The key words of a major speech can now easily be shown, and complicated economic stories can be untangled with Chiron-generated charts and tables. But doubts linger about how TV journalists will use their new technical skills. Bill Moyers places the challenge on Arledge's lap: "The test is whether Roone's talent for technology will be spent making the important interesting or the trivial acceptable...
...government strongly supports the U.S. position, the independent British Olympic Association remained adamantly opposed to a boycott. "The Games will be held in Moscow no matter what governments say," contended Lord Exeter, 74, the sixth Marquess of Exeter, and a 1928 gold medal winner in hurdles. "We are not lap dogs to politics...