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...athletes are from a land of backyard swimming pools and neighborly recreation rather than national regimens, they too are obsessive athletes. Several were immersed in the sport while still in diapers by eager relatives. Evans, not atypically, swam her first competitive race at age 5. As a child, Janie Wagstaff had to be counseled not to reach into the next lane and grab an opponent's foot. Even now, she admits, "when I'm swimming against someone, I want her to drown...
...most drama is likely to come in the backstroke, pitting towering Wagstaff (5 ft. 11 in., with men's size 11 1/2 feet) against compact Krisztina Egerszegi (5 ft. 4 in.) of Hungary. Wagstaff fades at 200 m but is a front runner at 100 m, and the Barcelona race may be the first time a woman swims that distance in less than a minute...
Still, grand dame Evans, puppyish Nall and embattled Wagstaff are likely to be overshadowed by Thompson and Summer Sanders, each competing in as many as five events. Sanders, maybe the team's most complete swimmer, is in the 100-m and 200-m butterfly and the 200-m and 400-m individual medley, plus a possible relay. She is likely to win only twice -- teammate Crissy Ahmann-Leighton is the fastest active 100-m butterflyer in the world, and Sanders tends to lose rhythm in the final freestyle laps of the medleys -- yet she could be somewhere on the victory...
...different class. Far from being impersonal and "cool," his work exuded a life and an almost menacing presence of its own. In December 1966, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum and Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art staged Tony Smith's first one-man show-or shows. Samuel Wagstaff, a curator at the Atheneum, decided to put four of Smith's pieces outside because "we felt that we ought to expand into the street." Smith delightedly constructed a new mock-up of Cigarette, double-size. It was a sensation. Next, Smith's works were assembled...
...works were assembled by Curator Samuel Wagstaff Jr., and almost all the artists shown have traveled the road from representation to abstraction. Curator Wagstaff was not out to prove that one school is better than the other; he simply wanted to show "the artist's handwriting, his forms, his palette, his style-the meshwork through which he sees life." Jagged Blacks. The most successful of the miniature retrospectives is that of Franz Kline. It begins with a straightforward drawing of David Orr, the collector who came across Kline exhibiting on a Greenwich Village sidewalk 23 years ago. The next...