Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swimming world, especially because of their unorthodox and innovative training methods. Often borrowing and improving on each other's ideas, the Reeses have been known to have their swimmers pull themselves up football-stadium ramps on "body scooters," kick in the deep end of the pool with leg weights, and climb ropes wearing lead-filled hunting jackets to develop upper body strength. Randy invented special arm paddles which create water resistance while correcting strokes, and Eddie trained his Texas swimmers in a 16 2 3-yd.-long pool this year so that they could get used to swimming...
...even to visit someone in a neighboring building. Says he: "If you can't talk to your friend on the telephone, you can't talk to him at all." Last summer during a card game in an open-air hallway, Terri Burch, 17, was shot in the leg by a sniper. "I'd like to move," says Burch, who is unmarried with one child and another on the way. "But I'm on welfare like everyone else, and they give me $207 a month. Where can you live on that...
Cutter (John Heard) is crazy angry and has every, right to be. He lost an eye, an arm and a leg in Viet Nam, and there are hints that a family fortune was somehow dissipated before that. He drinks, makes terrible scenes in public, and in private treats his wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn) shamefully. Bone (Jeff Bridges) is pathologically amiable, a gentle gigolo who would rather be out on his sailboat or, better still, indulging a dream of rescuing his buddy's lady from her slummy, captive misery. In short, Cutter and Bone are the oddest couple this side...
...exam. When he walks into the courtroom, he sports snakeskin cowboy boots, a knee-length beaver coat and a ten-gallon Stetson. His outside interests have included selling bull semen. During one trial, he kept an intriguing box on the table in front of him. The contents: the embalmed leg his plaintiff had lost in the accident at issue. He won some $300,000 in damages...
...competition was less predictable. Biellmann, fourth-place finisher at the 1980 Olympics, is the most seasoned skater of the current crop. She carried the day with a blend of experienced sang-froid and virtuoso spins. In a contortionist move of her own contriving, she grabbed her left leg behind her back with both hands and stretched it high overhead, while spinning at dazzling speed on her right leg. The Biellmann spin is breathtaking, but she lacks the athletic triple jumps that have become the sport's new measuring stick. With the new emphasis on athleticism, led by young crickets...