Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the fitness boom of the 1980s, healthy living became associated with noticeable muscles and no-pain, no-gain workouts. But if anything ever represented the Zen '90s, it's Pilates and the less-is-more body. "I used to look like Sylvester Stallone. People stared," clucks actress Sonia Braga, who's now keeping company with Pilates devotees like Madonna, Vanessa Williams and Sharon Stone. "What Pilates does is strengthen and elongate." Practitioners claim they double-cross genetics, getting fabulous bodies and feeling better with whiz-bang workouts that fit their hectic schedules. The number of Pilates studios has grown...
...have eight Marcuses in a row often evokes more pain than the abstract term of six million [deaths]," said Bernie Steinberg, executive director of Hillel...
Rejection always stings at first, but it only truly affects the attitude of the individual when they forget the times in life when they were the best. These little victories are what make life worth living. Using the "draft method" to equalize pain is the wrong answer...
...taken the lives of 3,249 people, including 16 killed in the past few weeks as the talks inched toward success. Ten times that number have been wounded since 1968 when the Roman Catholic minority rose up against British rule and the discrimination of the ruling Protestant majority. The pain of loss of a family member is perhaps the most powerful shared memory of Protestants and Catholics in Ulster...
...that this is necessarily a bad thing. STP was a great radio band, and a simple, heart-felt blues ballad sounds as good today as it did three years ago. The next track, "Divider," runs along the same listenable tracks--a piano-driven, modern-rock testament to the pain of drug addiction...