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...school? If not, why does Chris waste her time reading biology? If so, why don't they ever go to class--but he makes them seem unimportant by lovingly photographing his subjects' every muscle in a moist, lush color often enhanced by slow motion, and the eerie sound of rhythmic breathing. This may sound cliched by now, especially after the slow-motion races of Chariots of Fire, but Towne always adds an extra twist to keep things from getting boring. In one particularly stunning warm-up sequence, for instance, he follows the team through all five pentathlon events: A dozen...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Running for Love | 4/8/1982 | See Source »

...rest is all more of what Cheever has done well for years. His Sentences remain gently illuminated gems of language, uncomplicated by any wordplay and unfailingly rhythmic. He controls the pace masterfully, whether guiding the action over a cascade of toxic wastes or through a freshet of afternoon passion. And he can toss in a wisecrack at any moment. Running into his friend Eduardo the elevator man sometime subsequent to their tryst. Sears remarks. "We've got to find something else we can do together...Do you like to fish' Would you like to go fishing...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Paradise Questioned | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

...most participants, the pleasures of cross-country are not concocted from thrills and chills. Many tourers are family groups that simply strike out from the back door after a snowfall. Unplowed roads, golf courses and frozen lakes provide paths for the basis of the sport: rhythmic, exhilarating exercise in the country air. Observes Buck Elliott, operator of Colorado's Crooked Creek Ski Touring ranch: "We're back to a simpler life. Out here, you become more aware of what breathing and eating are all about." -ByJ.D. Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Cross-Country Inns Are In | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...piece develops, a furioso section for the ensemble is followed by electronic responses from the soloists until the entire orchestra begins to fragment, a violin jutting out here, a trombone blasting there. Répons gradually increases in rhythmic complexity as held notes in the brass arch over the busily insistent sound beneath. The impression is of the turning of a gigantic wheel in space. The piece ends quietly on a stationary but disquieted chord; rest is achieved at last, but not peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boulez Ex Machina | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...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 of $100,000, a pulse-quickening return of 40%. Thirty-five million pairs of designer jeans, at prices ranging from $42.50 to $110, will be molded to newly trimmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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