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...suffered from anemia and began a daily regimen of isometric exercises that turned him into a vaudeville strongman. With a 13-week bodybuilding course to sell. Atlas in 1928 was joined by Adman Charles Roman, who dubbed the system "Dynamic Tension" and created the cartoon of a hollow-chested, preAtlas adolescent having sand kicked in his face by a bully. Like his advertising, Atlas' course remained essentially unchanged for half a century and was bought by more than 6,000,000 aspiring he-men around the world...
...different circumstances have been an act of blind heroism or brutal revolution begins to look like a mere deranged impulse. The very fact that Dan's death is imminent means that he is not really putting himself on the line or taking any risk: his actions are morally hollow. The deadly chemical apparently is being tested by the Army for military use, but this point, once made, is quickly buried. (The Army curtailed "open air" testing in 1969, but did not completely eliminate it.) In Rage it is not necessarily alarming that the military conducts such tests, or that...
AFTER SHE GETS warmed up, and has mastered a peculiar sneering smile, Stockard Channing as Alice puts on a pungent performance that has apparently learned something from Elizabeth Taylor. Throwing back her head in a hollow laugh, grandly reclining on a couch, she is just decent enough to her husband to make it hurt when she finally applies the knife...
...windswept Baltic inlet only a few miles from Helsinki sits a starkly modern building, an angular Finnish masterpiece in white pine and fieldstone, which houses the student union of Helsinki's Technical University. There, around a hollow six-sided table, the representatives of 32 European countries plus the U.S. and Canada took their places last week to begin talks that may lead to the most significant conference in Europe's postwar history...
...construction to those of monster dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus, largest land animal ever to roam the earth. But corallestris hardly seems like a dinosaur at all. Whereas other dinosaurs lived on dry land or in swamps, corallestris made its home on offshore atolls. Like a heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching fish or lizards (the remains of a tiny undigested reptile are preserved inside of it). Although part of its forelimbs are missing, they seem to have been equipped with ducklike webbing. Says Paleontologist Gerard Thomel of Nice University...