Word: jogger
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Goodman describes herself as "a 38-year-old woman, mother, vegetable gardener, failed jogger and expert on only one subject: the ambivalence of life." Her extended family shares "not only an area code but also a zip code" near her native Boston, and rarely does a week go by when she doesn't see some relation or other. Divorced and the mother of an eleven-year-old daughter, she is at her most eloquent when tackling subjects close to home. "The pleasure of being a parent," she wrote last year, "is the extraordinary experience of having short people...
...avid jogger himself, Lukash has been running for 3½ years...
...long-unfinished Answered Prayers ("He thought about the smooth leather of the banquettes under his rear end and how he would look out and think about his enemies"). Fugitive Abbie Hoffman mailed in word of the Checker Cab Co.'s new nonpolluting taxi: a rickshaw pulled by a jogger and known as the Chinese Checker...
...Carmelina and is shunned by her as if he were the prime exhibit in an article called "Italians Are Lousy Lovers." Opera Star Siepi has a voice of hurricane force, but he seems to have graduated from the formaldehyde school of acting. Carmelina's dances look like a jogger's nightmare. There are some songs that might bear rehearing-It's Time for a Love Song, One More Walk Around the Garden, I'm a Woman-but in some other musical. -T.E.Kalem
...violence, often aimed at the influx of homosexuals. A local newspaper ad placed by a Baptist minister last month called for vigilantes to take action against "female impersonators and queers." Victims of recent violence include a man beaten with a pipe as he used a phone booth, a jogger almost run down by a car, a local museum director shot and killed, a restaurant owner beaten unconscious, and Authors Tennessee Williams and Dotson Rader, who were mugged. Two of those arrested were sons of prominent local families...