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...last year's Millrose Games--the oldest and most prestigious track meet in the country--track veterans were stunned when organizers unceremoniously bumped the men's pole vault from its traditional spot in prime time and replaced it with track and field's hottest event: the women's pole vault...
Women do the pole vault? Yes indeed. And an American cowgirl turned vaulter, Stacy Dragila, 30, does it better than anyone ever thought a woman could. The California native has owned the event since it became internationally accepted, including taking the first-ever women's pole vault gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney last September and capturing her second World Championship three weeks ago in Edmonton, Canada...
...listeners. The narrative tone varied from show to show, as in a well- chosen theater repertory. A stentorian "Abraham Lincoln" was followed by Schnitzler?s sad-gay "The Affairs of Anatol"; a jaunty Holmes-Moriarty saga gave way to "Hell on Ice," a docudrama of a disastrous North Pole expedition, and one of the most adroitly harrowing hours you could shiver through. Houseman, Welles and Howard Koch, who was hired as the main writer with "Hell on Ice," took full advantage of the mind-theater medium. Houseman: "We invented all sorts of ingenious and dramatic devices: diaries, letters, streams...
...sweat on their taut bodies darkening the waistbands of their bunched shorts. From his corner, Kumar barks a command and one of the men leaps at the other with his spear, its tip tracing the arc of his lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly it's over: the men lay their weapons before Kumar and bow to him, touching the feet of their master...
...image-makers who advise George W. Bush got what they wanted this week: a photograph, taken by the Associated Press and published in seemingly every newspaper in the country, of the President lifting a telephone pole as he "helped maintain" a nature trail in Colorado?s Rocky Mountain National Park...