Word: muscularity
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Dean was not, as Alexander posits, the first movie star to project androgyny. (See the early films of Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.) It's true that in East of Eden a whore calls out to Dean, "Hello, pretty boy." And yes, he was pretty: slight and muscular, his body compact, his face beautiful, seraphic, smudged, sleepy-eyed and quite American. Yet his appeal was not the girlish winsomeness of a catamite. It was the lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important...
...researchers at Fernald used smallamounts of radioactive iodine to study thyroidfunction in muscular dystrophy and Down's syndromepatients. In 1961, researchers performed nearlythe same experiment on Down's syndrome children atWrentham...
...glass, the metro offered a magnificent expression of Soviet splendor that belied the brutality of the era that produced it. Yet for millions of Muscovites who ride the trains each day, the metro no longer provides a voyage through a subterranean communist cathedral, whose effect is both sumptuous and muscular. Today it is overrun with beggars, reeling drunks and small-time entrepreneurs dragging trollies laden with crates and boxes...
...Muscular dystrophy researchers have for the first time identified a key molecule involved in forming connections between muscle cells and neurons, thereby affording new insights into why muscle cells die in muscular dystrophy patients. The discovery opens the way to fresh approaches in treating the disease...
Lake, "happy today" about the more muscular approach to Bosnia, defends his embattled boss. He points out that every bit of progress in that country has come from U.S. initiative: the NATO resolution last August against Sarajevo's strangulation, the no-fly zone, the air drops, the Sarajevo exclusion zone, the Croat-Muslim agreement and the new ultimatums. Says he: "It's unbelievable to me that we can make progress that no one would have predicted two months ago, through a lot of hard work by the President. Then you get Gorazde, which was a setback, and the critics start...