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...supervised workouts that follow are anything but easy. The members of the class warm up with a series of calisthenics, then pause, eyes on the clock and fingers pressed to their neck arteries to check their heart rates. Then they jog around the gym, each member following the plan designed to bring his heart up to the desired rate. The class then goes into more strenuous calisthenics, and ends with walking to cool down. The effect is to retrain and strengthen the heart muscle so that it can work harder without fatigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Working Hearts | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...classic bedroom farces of Georges Feydeau, sex is not in the mind, the heart or the groin; it is in the feet. His bourgeois lechers stalk women in the streets, jog from bedroom to bedroom, jump into the wrong beds, kick open the wrong doors, and are finally caught flat-footed in the tangled web of their own deceit. The goal of a Feydeau play is ostensibly the bed, but is actually bedlam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Cuckolds in Cuckoo Land | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

Staples like Barbie and Dawn are still around, but they too are now available in live action. Poised on a motorized stage, Barbie (or Ken or PJ.) can be made to dance, jog and exercise to either hard rock rhythms or Lawrence Welkish tempos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Sensuous Doll | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...power and fate in the palm of his hand. He jots down options, usually from one to six, and abides by the roll of the dice. What the dice-ordained life gives Luke is a sense of euphoric irresponsibility and almost infinite possibilities. When the dice order Luke to jog up and down in his office clad in track shorts, the action merely enhances his swiftly growing reputation for eccentricity. But the command to role-play a homosexual means venturing into an unknown area of experience. Luke's awkward attempts to get picked up in a Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: d-Olatry | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...thought Rojas did remarkably well considering how long he had been out," head coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "He just started to jog a little bit last Wednesday, and there was some question over whether he was going to run today...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Harriers Triumph in GBC's; Capt. Koerner Finishes Second | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

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