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The Long and Winding Road August Dan Martin An immobile administration and sports-weary Incidental Fee Committee chaired byJennie Clark butted heads year-long over athletic funding. 14 Mike Powell lived in Carl Lewis' shadow for more than a decade. Then, while competing in the World Track and Field Championships held in Tokyo during the month, Powell completes an improbable double: Not only does he defeat Carl Lewis in the long jump, but breaks one of the most awe-inspiring records in athletic competition by smashing Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump record. Powell, the perennial runner-up, leaps 29 feet and four and a half inches, and ensures himself immortality, but not a spot on a Wheaties box. ► Equal Flights The United States Senate votes to eliminate regulations that prohibited women in the Air Force or Navy from flying combat missions. Supporters hope the vote will quell the argu­ ment that women should not serve in the same military jobs as men. Yet women are still offi­ cially excluded from fighting in combat situa­ tions and signing up for Selective Service. ► Fast buck and the Preacher Televangelist and prostitution-advocate Jimmy Swaggart hits Civic Auditorium for three nights of Bible-thumping, God-fearing, good ol' fashioned revivalism. To less than a riveted audience, Swaggart sweats, pleads and wim- pers to the handful of followers who barely still give a damn. Once the most successful TV preacher in the world, Swaggart now answers the following trivia question: Who's the has- been cousin of has-beens Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley? Video Killed the Radio Star MTV survives to celebrate a tenth anniversary. Panned by critics as mindless, slammed by parents as evil, and used as an excuse for poor education by every knee-jerk politician, MTV still remains television's bastion of misogyny for the Wayne and Garth's of the world. Burn, Baby, Burn One of the year's most acclaimed documen­ taries, "Paris Is Burning," opens in Portland. Spotlighting the voguing balls of black and Hispanic gay men in New York City, Jennie Livingston's film introduces many to a posi­ tive artform celebrated for several years.