Word: springboarded
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...water. Quickness is the special talent of divers; their spins and somersaults are conjuring tricks that confuse the eye. Louganis alone is able to go beyond such dazzle to a majestic slowness that is no trick, but true magic. The most ignorant of spectators sees Louganis go off a springboard and thinks, "Oh, that's what it's all about." The experts are awed...
...have been around diving for 50 years, and no one I have seen, past or present, or whom I see coming up in the future, will equal Greg's performance." Tan Liangde, the flashingly acrobatic 19-year-old Chinese who came in second to Louganis in the Olympic springboard competition last week, laughed aloud at the silliness of the question when someone asked him whether the American could be beaten. "No," he said, and then added, no doubt with some Asian equivalent of crossed fingers, "not at this moment." Louganis, 24, says revealingly that he does not think...
...last the green light signaling her turn came on. In the tense silence that fell, one could hear her feet drumming the runway, then she leaped onto the springboard and pushed her handspring high toward the banner-draped rafters. She twisted, turned and landed without having to move so much as a toe to keep her balance. Neither Retton nor Karolyi nor the crowd needed a judge to tell them it was perfect. Without waiting for the 10 to flash, Retton ran to the barricades for a quick embrace with Karolyi, then, strutting the pigeon-toed linebacker's walk...
...subjective side of the pool, California Diver Gregory Efthimios Louganis, 24, is held in such complete esteem that his Olympics may resemble a coronation more than a contest. The three-time world champion, who won a silver medal at Montreal, is considered a lock on the 3-meter springboard and merely the favorite on the 10-meter platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives...
...protagonists--a man (Ernie Kerns) and a woman (Jacqueline Wetss)--live in apartments 2E and 3E of the same apartment building, but have never met. This coincidence becomes not a plot device--as the audience keeps expecting for the first five songs or so--but rather as a springboard for various types of fantasy. Being in the same apartment line, they are of course identical, a detail which makes possible a fruitful theatrical device: the two characters play out their separate alonenesses simultaneously on the same set. Most of the dramatic tension, then, resides in the blocking, since both actors...