Word: matting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace. Suddenly as she flew over the bar, she was unable to regain her grip and fell what seemed a dangerously long way to the mat. She resumed the exercise, receiving a 9.5 score, the maximum allowed after a fall. The Soviet women, who have dominated Olympic competition since 1956 but who finished second to Rumania in last year's World Championships, went on to win the team gold medal...
Almost everywhere, Labbé found evidence of the American pullout in 1975: a huge arsenal of U.S. warplanes, helicopters, tanks, guns and other matériel captured from the disintegrating South Vietnamese army and left behind by U.S. forces. Hanoi's high command has ingeniously combined its multinational matériel. Pilots trained in Moscow fly U.S. A-37 ground-attack jets and F-5 fighter-bombers. Airborne troops drop from Soviet transport planes wearing American parachutes. Chinese-made ships, donated by Peking during the Viet Nam War, have been equipped with new Soviet guns for patrol duty near...
Similar opinions are held by some of the patrons of Mat's Wine-ing Wench Pub, a friendly saloon with a pool table, pinball machines and a clientele that consists almost entirely of ironworkers employed at T.M.I. "Much ado about nothing," said Charles Hummel, a foreman, as he discussed people's worries about radiation. "The situation was never as bad as the press claimed it was," said a tall, mustachioed man whose T shirt bore an indelicate reference to Iran. "Nobody was killed. Nobody was even hurt...
...stones he grouped in twos and threes, nesting them into one another so that they seem to have flowed together. With the basalt, he split some stones by a single cut; in others, he opened up the merest chip of polished black "flesh" against the stone's rough, mat "skin," or bored into the surface with a coring saw. The result is more like interference than sculptural transformation, an attempt to see how little one needs to do to a piece of material to turn it convincingly into sculpture...
Andy McNerney's back-to-the-mat style may have put coach Johnny Lee on the verge of an ulcer, but he won't complain if the Yardling continues wins...