The two brothers, Van Dyke said, "were opposite ends of the pole as far as their personalities were concerned.
Both ends of the pole absorb Richter, and he has given his life over to pushing them so far as they will go.
Goldsmith later remarked that "you can see that I was sort of like going at opposite ends of the pole with the filmmakers of the picture".
You will always be on the low end of the pole economically and politically".
At the other end of the pole, placed there as if by unseen hands, was his dad.
At the other end of the pole, pasta with washed-out nuggets of sausage, roast duck and vegetables in saffron broth promised plenty of flavor but delivered none.
As he passed the back end of the pole topside, and turned his attention to other tasks, he was stunned when the business end of the pole -- equipped with a sharp, plastic hook -- raked him across the top of his scalp.
After planting the end of the pole in a box that is sunk below ground level, the vaulter leaves the ground and pulls himself upward until he is almost doing a handstand on the pole.
I took over, put the wobbly pole on the target, pushed and turned the plastic, unknotted it from the tree crotch, and lowered it to the lawn on the end of the pole like a captured standard.
He tightly bound and wired a bundle of twigs, trimmed them with a sharp hand-axe, inserted the sharpened end of the pole and hammered in pins to fix it all with the deft handiness of the expert.
You sprint down a paved runway carrying a fibreglass pole, plant the far end of the pole in a half-buried box, leap, and, with the pole now bent and serving as a giant spring, invert yourself and pirouette backward over the bar.
