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...says that on the way home, Seventh Avenue smelled of clover. A hefty housewife, who is wearing a heavy sweater over a wool dress, asks if the air conditioners could be turned off. Ron says "the temperature will be what it will be," but she is allowed to fetch her coat...
...much as $20,000 a day. The insurance payment would enable Christina to pay off the ship's $42 million mortgage and recoup most of the $10 million her father laid out as a down payment. Given the depressed state of the tanker market, Olympic Bravery would fetch between $20 million and $25 million-if a buyer could be found...
...sales of tennis equipment and enrollments in health clubs suggest that the U.S. is becoming a nation of fitness fiends. Yet for every jogger puffing through a park, there are probably still a dozen more Americans for whom a stiff workout is getting up during a TV commercial to fetch another beer. Most physical-fitness advocates approach this sedentary majority by exhorting or even trying to scare them into activity. But Laurence Morehouse, a physiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, is currently winning many converts with another approach. Out since March, his new book Total Fitness (Simon...
Revisionist Nostalgia. But Benton lived long enough to feel the coming of another revival. His easel paintings now fetch up to $90,000, a fat $40 book on him was published last year, and next year's Bicentennial will pour gallons of revisionist nostalgia upon the American regionalists-Benton included. Yet it seems unlikely that future generations will extract much aesthetic pleasure from Benton's big machines. They look like populist camp and are likely to keep doing so. Benton's revival has less to do with his art than with the grass-roots Americana he celebrated...