the wall of bodies in motion

Mario's photo-wall is an archive of the athletic body at full stretch. "Carol Spodek stretching for a volley at net, her whole body distended, face grim and full of cords"; "Hal at the height of his toss, knees more bent than he'd like." The montage freezes the players mid-effort — cords in the neck, distended reach, the knees betraying the toss — cataloguing the developed body in the postures the drills built into it. It's the anthology's body-at-full-resolution habit rendered as a literal gallery: dozens of stilled instants of muscle and strain. (Other frames — Wayne's silver plate, the Lung-assembly, the sprints uphill — are the institution's life; landed here is the body-in-motion register.)