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They do; before 5 a.m., Mercedes and Triumphs purr up to the Aerobics Center, and their drivers begin to circulate around the one-mile track. Each has undergone a stress test and has been weighed submerged in water to determine what proportion of his body weight is fat. Runners punch their times into a computer and receive their points. At the end of each month they get a printout of their progress. Thirty points a week, says Cooper, will maintain condition. Some overachievers earn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ready, Set ...Sweat! | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...space. Poems flower out onto the pages, or waterfall down them, or squat like fertility goddesses statuesque against the white. Then too, illustrations recur at intervals never longer than four pages--illustrations mostly that caress the eye, or that sit back and wait to be scratched, or that just purr. Vicki Minnis '77 did Diaspora's cover of cavorting silhouettes, as well as two impressively simple, almost monumental lithographs inside. Several of Lydia Bassett's 79 drawings reveal the influence of African abstraction, as well as a remarkable control of her medium. And the photographs by Marc Roberts '77, William...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Crying in the Desert | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

...sucking him into a state of heavenly transport punctuated by means of "Far out, Too much..." and hideous witch cackling that had gotten all twisted up somewhere deep down in his throat before flirting out between his rotten teeth. The Delac does give quite a ride and she does purr like a lady and she is real sweet and smooth and Daniel was right: He didn't forget his ride...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...Purr. Pets are the surrogate children- and husbands and wives- of Western society, returning, for kibbles and kisses, companionship and devotion, or at least a cool tolerance accepted as love. Like pharaohs and czars and Caesars, Americans surround themselves with absurdly exalted animals. In a disjointed society and a disquieting world, these anthropomorphized adoptees can be counted on to wag and purr and warble, warming human hearts and hearths until they pass expensively on to await us in the Great Pet Sheraton Upstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Animal Farm | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carnegie Goes Electronic | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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