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...body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people, on hand for last week's U.S.-Soviet track meet at Palo Alto. Calif., cheered themselves hoarse. "Now there,'' blurted a track fan, "is one Russian you can't help but like...
Gone is the sawdust; rubber matting is much easier to put down and neater to take up in the auditoriums where the tentless circus now plays. The freaks are still there in the sideshow, but it is considered discriminatory to call them by that name any longer, and the placards that identify them are like something out of a natural history museum. Gone is the little house that caught on fire; gone are the Living Statues; gone is the calliope; gone is Emmett Kelly, Gargantua, and Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. But gone, most of all, is the innocent...
Wondering how this film ever came out of Poland brings to mind the story of a Russian worker who left his plant each evening with a wheelbarrow full of sawdust. For a while the guards inspected the sawdust; finding nothing, they inspected more carefully, and finally called the NKVD. After several weeks, special security agents flew in to check the sawdust grain by grain; they too, found nothing. Weeks after the worker had been cleared of suspicion, a friend asked him what he was stealing. He answered, "wheelbarrows...
...half steps in the air before I land." He practiced stretching his arms high above his head to force his body up, learned to keep his legs rigid to lengthen his distance and to reach out as far as possible with his feet before landing in the sawdust...
...give Nast credit for deflating the "image" of Boss Tweed without giving equal credit to Herblock for deflating the "image" of the late sawdust Caesar from Wisconsin, you make a great error of omission...