Word: necks
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There are aspects of the new woman in a rising generation of athletes and actresses: the powerful neck and shoulders of Dancer Sandahl Bergman, the huge forearm of Tennis Champ Martina Navratilova, the mesa-flat stomach of Actress Mariel Hemingway, the sinewy "thunder thighs" of Marathoner Gayle Olinekova, the eloquently articulated back muscles of Track Star Patrice Don nelly. But these are not changeable parts on the latest model of Barbie doll. The new body is to be seen and appreciated in the sum and the movement of its parts, the most important of which may be the brain that...
DIED. Dean Chenoweth, 44, daredevil boat racer and four-time national hydroplane champion; of head, neck and chest injuries when a gust of wind flipped his boat while it was traveling at 175 m.p.h. during a qualifying run for the annual Columbia Cup race; on the Columbia River near Pasco, Wash. Returning several times from retirement, the "Comeback Kid" had miraculously survived one crash after another. Eventually he became one of only seven competitors who lived long enough to win more than a dozen races...
...doctrine has wisely found more in Poloniua than a silly buffoon When he talks Laertes eats off with a string of maxims for living, this bespectacled pedant warns against dressing gaudily and rips a pendant from around his son's neck. As he presses on with his list, we see Ophelia, sitting at his feet, silently mouthing the words along with him, having obviously heard the advice a dozen times; Polonius notices the mockery and gives her a playful cuff. Doctrice also doubles amusingly as the First Gracedigger...
...grave; he cauterizes his own stomach wound with flaming gunpowder; an enemy's bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa) and modern Japan (in The Challenge): the rite of passage has become a suicidal gauntlet. Call it machochism...
When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote "hours to a consideration of the nature of sexual relations in Western society," then come "to the conclusion he'd started with, that the only way to keep a woman in line was to do what the Anatolians do: run off a string of pregnancies, then dress the woman...