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It is years since sedentary jokers could get away with the line: "I get enough exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise." Regular exercise can help make one healthier. The injuries result from the delusion that a few hours of sports are helpful. Eighty percent of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Woes of the Weekend Jock | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

Another problem that hampers Springsteen involves his lyrical themes. It usually rings hollow for rock stars to sing in the first person about the drudgery of the working man, but Springsteen does it here on several cuts, including "This Promised Land" and "Factory." In other songs, Springsteen returns to the...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Erratic Bruce | 7/11/1978 | See Source »

Junior Ron Himelman, despondent over an early morning report that he shot a 68 on a recent hourly, revived his spirits with a solid Group II effort on his Pleasant Valley scorecard: 87 strokes. Junior Spence Fitzgibbons, ailing under the delusion that he is the incarnation of the infamous Dr...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

While a complete military triumph seems out of the question, he feels that Berlin could negotiate a settlement with Moscow ("Stalin need take no account of his public opinion"), thus freeing German forces to contend with the Allies in the West. This was probably the master propagandist's final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Inside the G | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

An account of such indecency might spoil her agreeable picture of Burchett, and this pleasant "peripatetic fellow" might have seemed better worth contempt than an encouraging column. But it is time that American supporters of Ho Chi Minh and his successors gave up the delusion that the barbaric tyranny under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blasting Burchett | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

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