Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engineers' blueprints. MacArthur the licensed pilot and balloonist who ten years ago soared over the Arctic Circle in a basket of his own making, Q.E.D., Charlie MacArthur is no starry-eyed idealist. Charlie MacArthur is no nut. And having more or less settled that question, he can relax and go back to all the other things Charlie MacArthur is, including owner of the biggest clubhouse a boy and his gang could ever dream...
Women playing lacrosse? Hockey? Women tackling each other in rugby and mixing it up in the scrum? Women running marathons? Small wonder that fathers, husbands and friends worry about the physical strains that the supposedly weaker sex is undergoing these days. Relax, fellas: there is little to be concerned about. Women are well suited to take part in rugged athletics. Indeed, women hold many long-distance swimming records for both sexes and have run men into the ground during ultramarathon races 50 miles long. Says Dr. Joan Ullyot, a physiologist at San Francisco's Institute of Health Research...
...cleric's collar, in Absolution. This time he plays Father Goddard, an opinionated Jesuit priest at a Roman Catholic boys' school in England. Trouble arises when his favorite student tells him in confession that he has committed murder. To get away from such traumas, Burton likes to relax on the set by tossing a cricket ball over a practice net. Snapping the event was Elizabeth Taylor's son Christopher Wilding, a professional photographer, whose shots of his former stepdad may, or may not, go into the family album...
Short of coming up with cows that breed as fast as battery hens, there is little that the Government can do to ease the fluctuations of the ten-year beef production cycle. One stopgap measure that President Carter is now considering would be to relax import restrictions on foreign beef in order to increase supplies at meat counters. Since there is presently no world surplus of beef anyhow, lifting restrictions would probably bring in no more than 250 million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada...
...M.I.T.," for example, cuts closest with an informal survey of reaction to the women at M.I.T. who publicly graded their lovers' bedroom proficiencies. "Porn for Women; Women for Porn" demonstrates Gould's considerable ability to explore a complex subject with style and economy. She knows how to relax: "Rolling around half naked on the floor of a mirrored room; performing unnatural acts in unspeakable positions; committing indecent exposure under glaring lights, not to mention the bold stares of hot-eyed strangers." Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour? No. Ms. Gould at a health club...