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While Gill was explaining, midway through his speech, that chauvinists should greet each other on the street "with a Charles Atlas muscle-flexing salute," two freshman women dressed in coats and ties and smoking cigars crashed the dinner...
...rustiest claptrap in literary exegesis. Moby Dick whale imagery, phrases like "an inversion of the objective correlative" and "eschatological imperatives" constantly threaten everyone with intellectual lockjaw. For one assistant professor, the idea of Dynamic Tension in Cat's Cradle evokes Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, although Charles Atlas' muscle-building method is more in keeping with Vonnegut's unpretentious style and sources...
Died. Charles Atlas, 80, the original "97-lb. weakling" who developed into the king of mail-order bodybuilders; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, N.Y. An Italian farm boy (real name: Angelo Siciliano), Atlas migrated to New York with his parents in 1904. He suffered from anemia and began a daily regimen of isometric exercises that turned him into a vaudeville strongman. With a 13-week bodybuilding course to sell. Atlas in 1928 was joined by Adman Charles Roman, who dubbed the system "Dynamic Tension" and created the cartoon of a hollow-chested, preAtlas adolescent having sand kicked...
WHEN it comes to picking areas, some skiers opt for the challenging, while others choose the chic. Lovers of the exotic may insist that Morocco's Atlas Mountains, home of the ruggedly independent Berber tribes, offer the best schussing. Cross-country buffs are likely to feel that mushing through Norway's Jotunheim (Giant's Home) region is nearest to nirvana...
...eminent claim to fame, however, at least in the Boston area, consists of its prodigious poster campaigns. It has become almost impossible to walk down any street in Cambridge without encountering posters emblazoned with "Wanted for Murder--Karl Marx," or IRS--Your Money and Your Life," or "Read Atlas shrugged". The posters have suffered erosion by angry fingernails and ball point pens, but Wright maintains that they still constitute the group's chief means of advertising...