Lords Of The Rings

January, 1982

Lords of the RingsThe Only Ugly Part of a gymnast's body is his hands which are like a ballet dancers feet--a perpetual challenge to the miracle of tissue regeneration. Once while I was walking around a gymnastics gym, I stopped a roll of tape that was trucking across thefloor and returned it to its owner. He extended what was supposed to be a hand but looked more like a catcher's mitt with fingernails. There were more layers of Calluses than layers of civilizations in the Holy Land. They all ha...