Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Retton had her turn on the mat next. Nowhere is the difference in the two performers' styles more apparent. If Szabo is European velvet, Retton is muscular American brashness. No one can generate her speed or leap to her heights; she can do numbers in floor exercises known only to men. On her first tumbling run, she pounded out enough time in the air to pull off a layout double back somersault, and exploded into a dazzling smile. It did not dim for the rest of her routine. When she landed her final twisting somersault, she had notched...
...long jump, the 100, the 200 and the relay, Lewis is favored in the same four events. Amid the bedlam of track's athletic circus, only he makes everything else come to a stop. His body is hard, like mahogany, but carved in unusually clear detail, including ropelike muscular definition. He is full-faced, rather babyfaced, but otherwise trim: 6 ft. 2 in., 173 Ibs. As a 100-meter sprinter, Lewis has registered the third-fastest time ever, 9.97 sec. In the 200 he is the second-fastest man in history and gaining. He holds the long-jump record indoors...
This blond and blue-eyed muscular young man says that he made up his mind to be an Olympian when he was seven, competing first as a swimmer, then moving to the bewitching variety of the pentathlon at 14. He visited the San Antonio training center that year, and returned summers during high school and his 4½ years at the University of Pennsylvania (where, while putting himself through a ferocious training regime, he also studied economics, political science and financial management). His extraordinary motivation is an asset in a sport whose audiences generally consist of coaches...
Physical therapies are helpful not only in relieving pain, but in helping patients get on with their lives despite it. Such treatments, including exercise, whirlpool and massage, are particularly useful for back pain, which is often compounded by muscular weakness. Before Maureen Brennan, 37, of Helena, Mont., arrived at the Seattle pain clinic for treatment of her back problem, she was confined to a wheelchair and was spending $180 a week on narcotics, sleeping pills and antidepressants. An accident four years earlier had ruptured five discs in her spine. Seven operations had failed to relieve the pain, and her weight...
Back in Honduras, F.D.N. leaders fret about whether the U.S. Congress will approve the pending $21 million in aid. "These Congressmen should not think just about the next election," says Mack, a muscular former Nicaraguan military officer. "They should look ahead five or six years. If we are not around, the U.S. will have to send Marines in. Then it is going to take the sacrifice of American lives to solve the problem of Nicaragua." Says a high-ranking F.D.N. official: "If the Americans think they can now just say, 'It was a mistake...