Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muscular, 163-lb. athlete who has a black belt in judo, Jeantot walked off his floating home at Newport as jauntily as if he were returning from a stroll. Of the few bad times during the voyage, the worst, he said, came between Sydney and Cape Horn, when he had to go far south to pick up the prevailing westerly wind. For 13 days near 58° south latitude, he never saw the sun and at tunes could not even see the top of his mast. "Everything on board was wet and cold," he recalls, "and it was dangerous when...
Being 60 is a place that he is still getting used to. He reveals one instance of what "getting older" means in his case: "You don't have the strength to push people around any more." At this moment, Michael Mailer, 19, handsome and muscular, is heard moving about in a nearby room. Mailer leans forward in his chair and lowers his voice conspiratorially: "I used to be able to look at that kid and he'd cower...
...Sweetness" was a word scorned by muscular America. It became "charm." And that is what T.R.'s fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt was all about, says James Rowe, the Washington lawyer who at 28 became F.D.R.'s executive assistant. Franklin made people like him and want to please him. At their first meeting in the Oval Office, Roosevelt threw his head back, beamed up at Rowe and said, "Jim, I want your advice." Rowe was captive for life...
...those two facts together and you have the Year of the Hunk. Charlie's Angels and the other '70s jiggle shows have given way to the '" muscular-ripple shows of the '80s: Magnum, P.I.; Voyagers!; High Performance and The Fall Guy. Nighttime TV resembles nothing so much as the locker room of the local Y, and the ability to read a line is less important than knowing how to use a Nautilus machine. "Young girls don't watch my show to see my wonderful acting," says Jon-Erik Hexum, star of NBC's Voyagers...
...same, old ways die hard, and the preacher was probably right when he said the people had not really changed down deep. There are two fresh indicators that double-mindedness is alive and hale around here. One is F.E. Draper, who successfully brought liquor to Colbert and then, feeling muscular, ran for county commission chairman. Soundly defeated, he said, "I committed political suicide in heading up that drive." Another is the Chamber of Commerce in still dry Florence, a town that has forever looked down a patrician nose at Colbert County. The view has always been that field hands...