Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...
...margin of victory translated into a mere 10.5 in. -- about the length of a speed-skating blade; for her crying, cheering relatives in the crowd, it might as well have been a mile. Blair, 23, willowy but muscular at 5 ft. 5 in., had brought home the gold medal to the U.S. And she had recaptured her world record from Rothenburger, who had first taken it away on the same rink only two months before. But wait. That's not all. Later in the week Blair went flying around the rink again to win the bronze medal in a personal...
FOUR years ago Peggy Fleming introduced another rival pair of skaters, both Americans, to Olympic fans. Before the competition began, the network showed clips of both stars. Rosalind Summers was spotlighted waving her arms balletically in slow, elegant moves. Elaine Zayak, a short, muscular New Jersey girl who had twice won the World Championships, was shown in falls that had marred her performances in the previous year...
...transplanting does no violence to Shakespeare's intentions, although some of the erratically varying performances do. Among the high spots: Lumbly's liltingly Caribbean and muscular Oberon and Lorraine Toussaint's Titania, his equal in dignity and a nonpareil in languorous erotic indulgence. Bottom (Abraham) and his pals, the "rude mechanicals," are for once believable working men, unpatronizingly evoked if, alas, therefore a little less funny than usual. This Midsummer will not stand in memory with Peter Brook's 1971 landmark staging or Liviu Ciulei's 1985 war of the sexes. But it is a vibrant start to a welcome...
...While controlling a tap at a crowded party, the seventh only poured beer for her muscular friends. For ignoring weasly but thirsty people like me, she's dead...