Word: overweightness
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Much more than mere leisure must be fueling this run for the money, however. Today a record 30 million confirmed runners are lapping about the U.S. Thirteen million biceps builders are working out in the 5,000 health clubs built in the U.S.; 20 million overweight Americans-and 20 million more who believe they are-will join in the battle of the bulge by dieting this year; and an alltime high of 440,000 patients will elect cosmetic surgery to freshen their features and tuck in their tummies. As if to give the surprisingly durable trend an official fillip, President...
...Today there are 15 million women runners in America, and Switzer, 34, is the head of Avon Cosmetics' $5 million sports department. She believes women's entry into the fitness and health boom is the single most striking fact of her generation. Says she: "I have seen overweight, unhappy, insecure women develop a confidence through running that helps them take risks and experience joy in their lives. It is a testimony to what the human body...
...claustral." From testimony and private conversation, she concludes that the cardiologist was "a small-time emotional imperialist," and "a glutton for other people's vulnerabilities." She gleefully notes that he took a nightly laxative mixed with applesauce and that, according to the autopsy report, the deceased was overweight by the standards set forth in his book, The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet...
...little confused, but encouraged by the camaraderie created whenever overweight people get together to do sit-ups, the stenographer pursued the point...
...underneath at night as if it has swallowed the moon"); a moment in January ("It is cold, a day that might bring snow, a day that feels hollow"). These moments, and many others like them, shed radiance on Rabbit and his surroundings, the very glow of transcendence that this overweight car salesman still, stubbornly, thinks of as his birthright. He does not always see it, but Updike's readers are granted this vision and something more: a superlative comic novel that is also an American romance. -By Paul Gray -While he was writing Rabbit, Run, more than 20 years...