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There were other stories that inspired heavy mail: 251 correspondents lamented the decline of quality rock music, 399 had opinions on mid-life pregnancies, and 357 commented on the Aug. 30 cover on fitness for women, "Coming On Strong: The New Ideal of Beauty." Said one lady jock: "Thanks for expressing so well what athletic women like me have known for a long time: exercise is the best makeup." But another reader was not convinced: "Can it be true that a pretty girl is like geometry...
Some of the "looks" featured in the calendar include "punk rocker," "California Golden Girl," "preppy," and "athletic female jock" (pictured at right...
After his landslide election, Bradley felt he had to prove to the other senators that he was not just a "popular jock." "You do not make it in the Congress on the are of your jump shot but only with a mixture of substance and personality," he explained. But Bradley said he has gotten to the point where people respect him as much for his legislative ability as for his hoop skills...
...Broadway. Pippin (Justin Richardson) is an average upper-middle class college overachiever; his dad. Charlemagne (John D. Langdon), a gruff executive type; Fastrada (Ann Henry), his mother, a matron right out of the Five Towns area; and Lewis (Mark Morland), his younger brother, the ancient equivalent of a dumb jock--a dumb warrior...
...perennially promising young man of American letters is 50 and enjoying a very good year indeed. Spring kept him busy accepting awards. Rabbit Is Rich, his third look at an aging ex-jock in southeastern Pennsylvania, is now being issued in paperback after winning the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer Prize ("Critics have called the book a fulfillment of Updike's fabulous promise"), an American Book Award ("Let us celebrate the prestidigitator who tells today with passion and warning, and tricks it into language's jubilee") and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle ("The novel...