Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to ways of fattening their bankrolls, the new fitness entrepreneurs have left few shoelaces untied. In a cinder-block building in Van Nuys, Calif., infants get put through exercise routines: 16-month-olds pretend to look like pretzels, swing from rings and run a kiddie obstacle course of bars and tunnels that looks like a miniature golf course, while older children learn what Junior Gym Founder Judy Braun calls "directionality" and have "rhythmic experiences." Eight lessons cost $55. The gym, begun in 1973, had revenues last year of $250,000 and profits before taxes...
...Jazzercise instructor in rural Hopewell, N.J., cheers: "Pretend your boyfriend is watching! Strut your stuff!" Up to 50 women in leotards perform a fast dance routine to the tape-recorded rock. Their movements variously suggest college cheerleaders or amateur night with a Junior League chorus line...
While Jordan's politice do pretend to address the needs of all Black Americans, he fails to confront the growing stratification within the Black community. In his recent speech at the Kennedy School Forum. Jordan, like many Black Harvard students in his audience, was unwilling to concede that the policies that have helped middle-class Blacks have done little for Blacks in Harlem...
...Stanley Cup Face-Off--started in New York. However, it was so cold there that they had to move the later games--the face-off goes on until one team has a two-game lead--to Los Angeles, where it's always like summer and everyone could pretend it was August again. But then, the smog got to them, so they moved the tournament back to New York. All this was possible because of the low air fares you can get now between New York and Los Angeles...
Sadat grew up with a hatred of Egypt's colonial British rulers and an almost fanatical admiration for Mahatma Gandhi. Confides Sadat's sister Sekeena: "When he was a little boy, he used to dress like Gandhi and pretend to be him." But if Sadat showed something resembling Gandhi's spiritual dimension in his later years, his early attempts to bring political change to Egypt were anything but nonviolent...