Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trimmed down to 175 Ibs. He has rehabilitated not only himself and his wife but countless other Americans through the exercise system that he calls "aerobics" (literally living in air). Cooper has stretched the word to mean "promoting the supply and use of oxygen." To him, it spells vigorous, breath-taking exercise at least four or five days a week...
...exercise is designed to relax the body and ease tensions. If it sounds like an Anacin commercial, at least it's not supposed to look like one. Henry stands in front of you with his eyes closed, breathing deeply and steadily, while you examine his body for possible kinks in his muscles and joints. Each time you find such a spot, you place your open palm on it, so that your partner will know to draw his breath from there and undo the knot...
Grisly stuff, one might think, but not so, thanks to Pinter's sense of the ludicrous and his love of vaudeville and word juggling. While tickling the mind and prickling the skin, Pinter makes one giggle and gasp in the same breath...
...take a deep deep breath and then say it. As a dramatist, Samuel Beckett can be, and frequently is, a crashing bore. His world-renowned play Waiting tor Godot has been called a masterpiece so repeatedly that any revival of it seems to come gift-wrapped in its exalted reputation. In the canon of dramatic literature, Godot is an original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing...
...come through the church, which carries the stigma of spawning the macabre teratism we call penitentiaries. If this is to be the decade for penal reform, may God grant that the church will not arrive on the scene "too late, with too little, and all out of breath." After all, it is of no small significance that Jesus Christ defined one criterion of judgment with crystal-clear simplicity: "I was in prison and you did not visit...