Word: gym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hemenway Gym onlooker observed, "Paul probably has them playing chess at night...
...economic policy will be sorely tested in coming months. Last week Carter was saying all the right things, working a strong anti-inflation pitch into all his campaign speeches on behalf of Democratic candidates. Typically, he told a friendly crowd of 3,000 in the Niles East High School gym just outside Chicago: "I have spelled out to the Congress, to the American people, indeed to the world, a commitment on my part to make sure that we get inflation under control...
...caterers had prepared frightening 15-foot heroes, every kind of salad and cold casserole. Grilled hot dogs and hamburgers smoked the rafters. Moving flashing black leathers, chic corduroys and boots, tight female leather pants--and some were even "punked out" in this old ratty gym...
...Elevator.........Ra---diator." The mannequins next to the stageset gazed lifelessly on a bunch of variously dissheveled rockies doing, en masse, their Keith Richards imitations, getting into it, encased by the cracked plaster of a boxing gym and the boxing posters (from Marciano to Frazier) which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial...
Narcotic spaceshot put-ons in the memory of great rock'n'roll continued with "Sandman"--another song spaced into lost perception. And finally, oh finally, "Cat" Davis came jogging through the gym, stripped of her warm-up and donning her Everlast gloves. I was expecting, something like a roller derby queen, but the "Cat" was very real. She was beautiful, to begin with--in peak athletic condition with tight, firm skin and muscles; a cute, but tomboyish face under a flock of long, curly blonde hair. Her sparring partner was a short, pudgy guy--and they just goofed around...