Word: buff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen-year-old veterans are not the wave of the future, however. The mind of the swimming buff turns, in a pleasurable way, to the woman-no, let's say it, girl-who beat Meagher in the Olympic trials. She is Jenna Johnson, 16, a willowy, 6-ft. ½-in. redhead who is a junior from La Habra, Calif. Here in the 100 fly she charged out ahead of world-record pace-Meagher's record-and turned ahead of Mary T. "Oh please, oh please," said Meagher aloud as she ground away with 25 meters...
...devised a similar character, and fictitious dialogue, to report a speech at New York University by Nobel-Prizewinning Poet Czeslaw Milosz. Reid's explanation: using a fictional persona helped him overcome writer's block. Personae, such as "our man Stanley," and pseudonyms, such as the railroad buff "E.M. Frimbo," are common devices in "Talk...
...intentions of the men in the Kremlin?not that the rest of the world in this case did any better. And if the issue is hardly comparable in importance to nuclear arms negotiations, the boycott demonstrates a Soviet wish to dramatize superpower tensions that cannot comfort anyone, sports buff...
...English set was all dressed and ready for her nude shower scene last week when Actress Julie (Educating Rita) Walters, 34, suddenly announced that everyone else had to strip. She was simply invoking the new Actors' Equity rule that required all technicians present to be in the buff too, Walters explained. Adrian Hughes, the producer of She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas balked, but Walters gave him the phone number of an Equity representative who confirmed her claim. The red-faced cameraman obligingly overexposed himself while others compromised by stripping to their underwear. The scene then went...
...brands are expected to be males over 25 who have begun to worry about their health. Industry watchers say Anheuser-Busch will spend up to $30 million on its ad campaign featuring such modern life-style exemplars as a businessman bicycling to his job and a fitness buff working out in a health...