Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body surfs, but still performs backflips into the pool "to show off for Nancy." By working out with weights and treadmill for 25 minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added almost two inches to his chest. The Rancho del Cielo physical regimen-wood chopping, fence building and horseback riding-was familiar, but who knew about the cure-all mental effects? "There's something that clears your senses in the out of doors . . . It gives you the right attitude . . . [Riding provides] a different perspective on life...
...Eliot thought otherwise: "Evening quickens faintly in the street,/ Wakening the appetites/ of life in some/ And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript." Yet if the news is so deadening, why does it feel like a resuscitation, a thump on the chest to get the day on beat? Merely the expectation of the morning bulletins seems to place the body on alert. No, it is not beauty, wisdom or deep knowledge, but it is the news, a million panicked animals bounding up the stairs. The blood, the senses, everything races...
...institution, Sloan-Kettering, has long been a bastion of radical surgery. A survey conducted in 1980-81 by the National Cancer Institute found that 80% of breast cancer patients in Atlanta and Detroit were being treated with a modified radical mastectomy, an operation in which the breast and some chest muscle are removed. Up to 5% were still being treated with the old-style radical mastectomy, in which so much pectoral muscle is removed that arm motion may be limited for life. Only 7% of patients in Atlanta and 10.8% in Detroit had received a lumpectomy, a quadrectomy, or some...
...recalls everyone around her thinking that "JFK's going to pull through." Only she knew he had died, because she was Catholic and knew what the ringing church bells meant. "He's dead, the President's dead, God rest his soul," she says, forming a cross over her chest. That's before we know that it is Kennedy's death that has influenced the people we see. But it is underlying everyone's stories, even that of Carla (Heather Johnston) who is more preoccupied with the death of Marilyn Monroe...
Similarly Bailyn is described even by close friends as somewhat of a loner someone who just might not have the inclination to immerse himself totally in the administrative affairs of the Faculty. "He plays his cards very close to his chest," says one official...