Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminder. At a recent practice session, he inspected his landing track after each jump, intent for 1 Yz hrs. that every one of them be absolutely fine and clean. For all his spartan talk about pure athletics, Hamilton in action is more than just physically powerful. With his miniature, muscular body (5 ft. 3 in., 115 Ibs.) wrapped in a plain, spangle-free uniform, there is something of the playful otter about him. All good skaters make it look easy, but Hamilton's skating looks inevitable, as if he cannot help but spin and leap across...
...elbows, thighs and groins, but these images-which, in the hands of a mere surrealist-minded painter, could have turned the surface into a charnel house-are sublimated by de Kooning's classical instincts to a generalized sense of the body that matches, in a terse way, the muscular rakings of his brush...
...timing was perhaps not perfect, with so much else going on in other parts of the world where the U.S. was engaged. In the wake of the successful U.S. invasion of Grenada, Reagan seems to be striving for a more muscular foreign policy, one more openly backed by the threat and occasional use of military force. Thus, the U.S. last week was massing naval power in the Middle East, possibly to retaliate for the attack on Marines in Lebanon-though whom to retaliate against, and how, was an unresolved question. Largely at the instigation of Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Playing a Southern belle was not a dream of mine at all," says Mariel Hemingway, 21. "But then the more I thought of it, the more I thought, 'Why not?' " Hemingway had gone from playing the trim, muscular pentathlete in Personal Best to portraying the voluptuous playmate and murder victim in the soon-to-be-released Star 80, with nude scenes in each. So a mere adjustment in her accent would seem a snap for her first stage role, in The Palace of Amateurs, which opens in two weeks in Dallas. At first, though, the Idaho-born actress...
Barring any tragic incidents, Reagan's muscular foreign policy is likely to remain both flexed and relatively flexible. If Reagan has not quite donned the complete uniform of the world's policeman (the costume Presidents have worn for most of the 20th century) he has been swinging the nightstick as though he means it. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington