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Watson's coach, John Walker, said the competition was "fabulous--he had to hit everything." Walker raved about Watson's best dive, a back one-and-a-half somersault with a two-and-one-half twist, calling it a "typical Dan Watson back twister--it was excellent...
...Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez was a new man to the liquor business, and an old timer cracked, "He should have put his best whisky on the back of the shelf." Gonzalez still has not made up his losses, but he has learned to pen in his bottles with wire...
Kaplan has made a game stab at filling the space. He had meticulously choreographed a procession of clever unsurprising slapstick turns, solemnly executed by actors who signal the coming of a collision, pratfall or somersault the way a five-year-old holds his nose before diving off a high board. Rather than using the company's limitations and giving us a slopping, ingratiating evening, the director offers us a museum piece--slapstick embalmed...
After what he labeled "a disappointing showing" off the 1-meter board--second place to Cornell's John Krakora--Mule fought off all challengers by executing a forward one and one-half somersault with three twists on his final dive of the 3-meter contest to secure first place...
High point diving honors went to Harvard's Jeff Mule. With Columbia's Paul Opperman, a summer training partner of Mule's, pulling close, the Crimson diver completed the competition with a backward one and a half somersault with a two and a half twist. This maneuver earned a roar from the crowd and averaged a score of 7.5 from the judges, putting the three meter title...