Word: muscularity
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...just off the main runway, stood a trailer converted into the dispatch office of Executive Aviation. EA, its twin-engined carriers and a snaky Lear jet, flew quick-order runs of car parts to GM plants around the country. Everything, from the reined jet to a sharp-boned and muscular Doberman, jutted sleek, Steinberg angles. Everything, that is, but an unshaven guy snoring in a wood chair propped against a wall with his boots on a table. He wore a Beech-nut "chaw" cap and kept a spit tin on the floor next to the chair. The Doberman sat poised...
...sculpture, the San Marco horses do not really equal the massive, noble modeling and sheer formal energy of the Marcus Aurelius. The curves of the horse at the Met are almost languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...
Olympic watchdogs are ready It has been the talk of the locker rooms for years. East Germany's muscular women swimmers are suspected of training on body-building anabolic steroids. So are weight lifters, shotputters and javelin and discus throwers of many countries. Soviet female gymnasts have been accused of taking pituitary blockers to slow down growth. Swimmers, runners, cyclists and hockey players are widely believed to compete while "hopped up" on stimulants, especially amphetamines. Though practically all drug use is forbidden under Olympic rules, competitors, coaches and sports physicians alike say flatly that the taking of drugs...
...Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, the Soviet figure skaters who defected last fall, are performing like teenagers, although he is 47 and she, 44. The Protopopovs left home because they were no longer able to do the routines that gained them two Olympic gold medals and transformed figure skating from muscular jumps into frozen ballet. Now they can, on a U.S. tour with the Ice Capades, which features the pair glissading and grinning...
...audible" was Shaw's metaphor for this miraculous score, and it serves well to describe Solti's performance-swift, dramatic, deft. The tragic hints in the work are systematically underplayed; the elegant comic surface remains unbroken. Colin Davis' 1974 recording, with its darker moods and more muscular texture, still provides a compelling alternative reading. But the splendid cast and Solti's conducting make this set at least the equal of any now available...