Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That incident, as it turned out, was a harbinger of more disappointments. Going into the final rotation in the all-around competition, Comaneci was in sole possession of first place. She went to the 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...
...truth-seeking scholar and the passionate homosexual lived parallel lives that never touched. The circumstance showed in the verse. It sprang fully formed from the depths of the subconscious, and Housman would not apply to it, the work of the mind. His poetry thus remains a chiseled miniaturization, a little too simple, a shade too accessible. Graves persuasively argues that if the scholar and the poet had joined forces, if the homosexual and the classicist had agreed to cooperate, Housman would surely be ranked with such brooding Victorian giants as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy...
...serve. Bergelin had an idea. In the past, Borg had lined up to serve with his left foot parallel to the base line, his left shoulder pointed toward the net. As a result, Borg's toss was loopy, off to his right, and he could bring power to the stroke only with his arm. Bergelin?who had already cured Borg's tendency toward overly whippy wrists by going into a factory and designing a special, extra-heavy racquet?suggested a minor change: line up with the left toe pointing toward the base line. It was a 90° change...
What makes Borg so good? Top-spin is one element. He often starts his forehand swing with the strings virtually parallel to the ground, turns the face of the racquet until it is perpendicular at the instant of impact, then twists it to the horizontal again. Thus he is whipping his hand from palm up on the backswing to palm down on the follow-through...
...Leningrad gym, a class of ten-year-old schoolgirls begins one of its twice-weekly sessions by executing handstands on the parallel bars. In Moscow's Central Army Sports Club, teams of soldiers exchange their combat boots for skates; a hockey puck is soon cracking like gunfire against the wooden boards. Near by, in Luzhniki Park, a group of middle-aged citizens sets out on a supervised 10-km walk, picking berries along...