Word: gaspeing
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...fitness has produced its measure of snobbery, much of it directed at such harmless but torpid pursuits as golf and bowling. Neither, says the religion of wheeze and gasp, will do much for your cardiovascular system. (A golf course is about four miles long, and is negotiated, usually sitting down, at an average of 1 m.p.h. or less; at the professional level, tournaments are won by jiggling fat men. Bowling consists of brief bursts of slow motion separated by rest periods.) And fitness of the heart, lungs and circulatory system, far more than muscular strength and flexibility, is what...
Like any red, white and blue interplanetary alien, Brinkley opts for what is right. The book recounts his exploits as he searches for the root of the conspiracy. Is it the Mafia, the Russians, or the Texas oil millionaire? Could it be--gasp...
...Gasp! If I look pained in the picture of me and Tetsuji Iwase sprinting to the finish of the Boston Marathon, let me tell you how pained I felt when I read Peter Stoler's claim that one must be a superb athlete to play left field for the Boston Red Sox, but anyone with enough determination can run a marathon. If it is simply skill that makes a superb athlete, I have no quarrel. But if physical conditioning has anything to do with it, sports physicians will confirm that the average marathoner is a more "superb" athlete than...
...example. Belinda, a charming young woman from Very Ordinary High School in Kansas is sitting with her boyfriend, Horace Albertus Magnus Gordon III. Horace and his friends begin to talk about ergs, their catch, and the abundance of crabs they caught in the last race. Immediately Belinda begins to gasp for breath, her eyes bulge, she rips at her hair and then blows bubbles in her milk. An obvious case of Crew Anti-jockism," he said...
Those who have never seen Dolly gasp. That mountain of a teased blond wig and the hot-pink, jeweled jumpsuit are spectacular. Only five feet tall, she totters atop five-inch gold heels. Swinging into All I Can Do, she catches the eyes of the people in the front rows and plays to them, talking, teasing...