Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three close games in the battle between number one freshmen heavyweights. Penn's McConnell used a perfected combination of quickness and raw power to keep the Crimson ace of balance and impress much of the gallery "She looks like a linebacket," one of the partixan crowd noted of the muscular McConnell...
...people who made this picture are not interested in tragedy or even human messiness. They are determined to prove not only that "nice boys do," but that homosexuals can be as well-adjusted and as middle class as anyone else. Thus Zack, after leaving Claire (Kate Jackson) for a muscular writer, eventually settles down with a lawyer. They sit around, one reading his medical journals, the other studying legal briefs, both looking as if they had just swallowed The Official Preppy Handbook. Claire ends up married to an unflighty sort with a child ascamper at her skirts. Everybody feels much...
...strolling down the garden path of English whimsy will soon find his heels being nipped by demons. Like the Irish country house of Cousin Ursula, the Warner world is haunted. Exotic objects like an old sedan chair mysteriously move themselves about at night. Can it all be explained by muscular rats...
...things, I forgot to mention a fourth obsession--Dwight Clark. Not only did Clark make the reknowned playoff catch, but he also had dinner with Susan's family at her home last summer. Clark, according to Susan, is as close to perfection as anyone can be--he is tall, muscular, good-looking and nice. The only problem, says sorry Susan, is that he currently dates Miss Universe...
...painted scenes of the Old West in a brawny and fluid style reminiscent of Thomas Hart Benton. As a sculptor he produced bronzes of cowboys, Indians, bucking horses and stampeding cattle. The casual eye is reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy and muscular humanism of the Renaissance statues. In Harry Jackson (Abrams; 308 pages; $125) Author-Editors Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard sample Jackson's abstract work and offer a generous selection of his realism along with a biography of one of the mavericks of American...