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...nobody recalls, Evans was on base when Henry Aaron hit No. 715 in Atlanta. But if he was merely on hand for dramatic events before, he is onstage for them now. With one Royal on and two outs in the taut eighth inning of matching three-hitters, Evans dived for a ball at first base and then beat Willie Wilson in a race to secure Milt Wilcox's 1-0 victory, which won the pennant...
...human nature: Tom is wholly believable in his fumbling attempts to launch a just-us-guys friendship with his father's latest collaborator; Sam's mistress Maria performs a convincing balancing act between servility and possession. Arlen's prose, if too painstakingly crafted, is at once taut and richly evocative. And in its glimpses of combat between father and son, it is fittingly remorseless. -By William A. Henry...
Hear the language of the prairie wind. The muffled groan of a forgotten and rusted windmill. The taut, thin cry of a young hawk at a thousand feet poised on invisible thermal crests. The worried whispers of hundreds of millions of stalks of corn, ear to fat ear, leaf on leaf. It all says more in ten minutes about beginnings and endings, about hopes and disappointments than Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale have said in a year-a loud, loud year...
...times are not changing; they have already changed. The hugging, the kissing, the tears belonged to both the men and the women. Sugar Ray Leonard fed his baby a bottle while he watched the boxing. The women, taut and tough, sleek and sinewy, demolished the myths of frailty forever, and they did it with humor, grace, gaiety and even... sportsmanship. Try telling the women's rowing crew that women can't get along with each other, or the volleyball team that women lack commitment. Try telling the marathoners-collapsing Gabriela Andersen-Schiess and the surprise bronze-medal winner...
...special tools for exploring and repairing the joint. Guided by the TV image, and deftly handling the instruments-maneuvers that require such acute eye-hand coordination that arthroscopy has been dubbed "videogame surgery"-James located a piece of cartilaginous material about 1 in. long. As the surgeon snipped the taut, rubber bandlike tissue with his scissors, there was an audible snap. The entire procedure took 40 min. Two days later Benoit was exercising on a treadmill. In Richmond, Retton checked out of the hospital the day of her operation and was back training in a Houston gym the next...