Word: jogged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women can move proudly into the security of then-new bodies ? they can jog into shape, lift weights for body tone, wear themselves out in the disco bliss of Jazzercise. But what about men? "Jazzercise is a blowout," one Atlanta woman says. "Remember the first dances you went to, where all the girls ended up dancing with other girls because the boys couldn't dance? So this gives me a chance to dance, which my husband hasn't done since our wedding. But my husband still won't dance. Come to think of it, I'm back to dancing...
...eight lovers in Berowne, the naysayer who winds up narrating a good deal of the young men's transitions from games to reality. Max Cantor, whose forte seems to be bringing believable emotion to stylized and ultra-verbose lines, uses physical cavorting not to distract the audience, but to jog the attention span every couple of paragraphs. And despite the length of his speeches, the ongoing struggle that structures the lines--the attempt to find true emotions among his fiends posturings--creates a clearly defined character, allowing Cantor to mold an actual stage presence...
That self-imposed isolation continues in Plains. After repeated refusals, local acquaintances stopped sending invitations. Carter seldom leaves the house except to go to church on Sunday, to jog or to attend the funerals of old friends. His daughter Amy, now 14, tries to get him to catch a movie in nearby Americus, but he is rarely inclined to do so. Every six weeks Carter goes to town to get a trim from Norinne Lowell at the local barbershop. He never goes out to buy his clothes, but orders them by mail from a designer friend in Bowdon, Ga. Even...
...five months later, though, all the cows miscarried. Rather than assess and second-guess her own delayed shock values. Atwood states her preference for filling the months between novels--when the emotional and creative cycles don't overlap--with writing T.V. docudramas and adaptations, her mental equivalent of a jog around the block...
Laboring through her fifth exercise class of the day, East Coast Type A puffs "shoo shoo" in response to a dazzlingly fit former cheerleader's exhortation to "blow it out." The formerly flaccid Type A has lost 5 lbs. and 3 in. She has stopped smoking and can jog for 20 minutes. She agrees with Mel: "I want to feel like this forever. ' ' -By Jane O'Reilly