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...Neighbors, situations can always get worse, and funnier. Beeler's son Tony, a nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old daughter. Bullard's nasty son Junior gets hold of Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millvillers and Hornbeckers | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...equipment is better," says Warmerdam, "but so are the athletes. It's a combination." Just as the pole vaulter himself is a combination: sprinter, weight lifter, gymnast. He is characteristically happy. "Because," says Warmerdam brightly, "it is just a fun thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High on a Swizzle Stick | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Like a weight lifter who spends too much time in the gym, the U.S. dollar has become musclebound. It will take a further decline in interest rates and an international economic recovery before American currency can begin to be brought into balance with the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Strong for Its Own Good | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...city has offered to reinstate the permit if students meet with police to insure there will be no problems with public drinking, loud music, street lifter or sufficient police protection." Deputy Traffic Commissioner Paul Foster said yesterday...

Author: By Mark A. Hurwitz, | Title: Students Upset With Decision To Rescind BU Party Permit | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

...Findlay, Ohio, housewife who wrote T.S. Garp to complain that his books made fun of people's troubles. Win Berry's son John will receive no such mail. He lives almost entirely in his family. His preparation for life is largely symbolic; as a jogger and weight lifter, he has the strength and endurance to repel invaders and shoulder his relatives' burdens. Characteristically, he marries the most imaginatively troubled woman in the book, a rape victim who spends many angry years in a bear suit as a bouncer at a brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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