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...would be fantastic to be looking at an undefeated season. Halliday says, "but it ought to give us a shot of adrenalin for the Eastern...

Author: By Rich Zemel, | Title: Al Halliday | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

...narcotic, along with opium, heroin and morphine. Yet the last three are "downers," which quiet the body and dull the senses, while coke is a stimulant, or "upper," similar to amphetamines. It increases the heartbeat, raises blood pressure and body temperature, and curbs appetite. Like a shot of adrenalin, coke puts the body into an emergency state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Fire in the Brain | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...cannonball. The Spielberg Lucas summertime epic starts off at a hellish pace and then refuses to slow down: there are Nazis and naked savages, reptiles and archeologists, pyramids, legends, car chases, curses, and even--albeit abstractly--a visit from the Supreme Creator. It is, in short something of an adrenalin mosaic: the first movie in a long time that can go from 0 to 60 before the titles even roll...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Careening Classic | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...batter swing away on a 3-0 count, praising on the bench, and doing the dressing down in private. Says Baltimore's Earl Weaver, the winningest manager in baseball today: "If a person can get to the subconscious, then he is going to get a lot more adrenalin flowing or a lot more out of the human body than it might be capable of. I don't know if it is through actions or words or what, but Billy has the ability to pass that on to his players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Playing Billyball | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...fascinating phenomena of power to watch the adrenalin build even as the flesh wants to sag. An aide going over the final version of the speech with Reagan was suddenly struck by the fact that this 70-year-old man "was enjoying the job of being President far more than he thought he would." The observer mused to himself that "few men get this special sense of satisfaction in their lives, the chance to do what they have been thinking and talking about for so long." Time and time again, in making decisions on budget and tax cuts, in giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Scripture for a New Religion | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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