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...pool is unfenced and a passing child is injured while swimming. But in Baltimore, a recent Court of Appeals decision suggests that an owner's liability does not extend to every circumstance. While visiting a friend, Eugene Telak, 35, decided to take a dip. Though an accomplished swimmer, he smashed his head on the bottom after diving from the board, and floated to the surface paralyzed-a quadriplegic for life. He sued, arguing that his host should have warned him that the pool was only 7 ft. at its deepest spot. "Regretfully," the court disagreed. The pool had been...
...those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, " 'I drank too much last night.' " So begins John Cheever's short story The Swimmer and this picture based...
...acrid, desolate quality in Cheever's original-notably when Merrill is maligned by a series of well-cast bit actors playing the tradespeople and servants he once abused. But, like its main character, the project at bottom is a parody of its essential self. "When you see The Swimmer, will you talk about yourself?" ask the ads. The chances are that the viewer will talk to himself during the long, embellished stretches that, sadly, make up most of the film...
...friends from attempting the same tactic to force the expulsion of Israel? And the people most sorely hurt by the I.O.C. action are South Africa's athletes. For Sprinter Paul Nash, who last month tied the 100-meter world record four times in eight days, or for Swimmer Karen Muir, the world's No. 1 backstroker, it means losing a crack at Olympic gold medals. Both Nash and Muir are white. For the blacks on South Africa's team, the loss is even greater: a chance to compete for the first time on an integrated basis-thereby...
Since he is only a high school senior, Mark Spitz was not eligible to compete in the N.C.A.A. meet, a fact that certainly saved the older boys a good deal of embarrassment. At 18, Spitz is recognized as the world's No' 1 swimmer, and the closest thing to a one-man team the sport has ever known...