Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life, by Bernard Malamud. The author, known as a skilled allegorist for his previous novels (The Natural, The Assistant), is less successful as a writer of realistic fiction, but this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality...
Primitive Pooling. Monnet's tough peasant heritage is stamped in his broad face and his short, stocky, muscular body. His paternal grandfather, a farmer-mayor of Cognac, lived to the age of 102. Jean Monnet's mother lived to be 87, his father, Jean Gabriel, to 83. A staunch conservative. Jean Gabriel used to warn young Jean that "every new idea is bound to be a bad idea." There is no evidence that Jean paid any attention...
...ministers and bankers from the 73 Western, African and Asian nations belonging to the International Monetary Fund last week grappled with a problem inconceivable only five years ago. The underlying-though unconfessed-preoccupation of the Vienna meeting; how to keep the U.S. dollar from being bullied by the newly muscular currencies of France, West Germany, Italy and Japan...
...gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...
...Ratoffian mouthful: "You vill pe itten py ze volchers!" Otherwise, the most remarkable thing about the film is its sustained improbability. Greco looks as appropriate in a jungle as a crocodile on the Champs Elysées. The languidly sophisticated little love scenes are hardly the sort that a muscular truck driver and his lively young wife would get much satisfaction from. The landscape doesn't look African, and it isn't; almost all the outdoor scenes were shot in the south of France. Last straw: in their entire trip through what passes for unaccommodated wilderness, the lovers...