Perhaps best known in Britain for slamming his head on to a springboard mid-dive during the Seoul Olympics, that incident overshadowed a quartet of Olympic gold medals.
John Divola, wearing a Dodgers cap and captured in blurry mid-dive for the ball, says, "Statements are hard to make".
The front yard is a gaudy stab at Versailles, with four-foot obelisks at each corner of the driveway, intricately tiled fountains and a series of steel sculptures that depict dolphins mid-dive, children at play and birds in flight.
It is in a mid-dive pose, suspended about 4m (13ft) above the floor.
Which brings us to the real reason we're watching these international feats of strength and agility: the hilarious faces the athletes make mid-jump, mid-dive and mid-swing.
Just imagine -- your companion dolphin, who comes to the cove by your house for a daily visit, is swimming along, frolicking with his family, when, in mid-dive, a sonic canon boom turns his radar system to jelly.
The world economy is in mid-swan dive.
The collection depicts women in mid-stroke, dive, or glidding beneath the surface of swimming pools and ocean waves.
Winged creatures battle mid-air or dive into vulnerable enemy formations.
EVERYONE knows that the financial system took a downward dive in mid-September.
Then, after technology stocks took a dive in mid-April, business slowed markedly, though investors rushed to adjust their portfolios for the end -- at least temporarily -- of the run-up in technology stocks.
