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After all, if a chubby, 214-lb., two-pack-a-day smoker like Jim Fixx could transform himself into a sleek, 160-lb. marathoner, then anyone could do it. Fixx's 1977 best seller, The Complete Book of Running, converted the masses with rhapsodic sermons on the physical and psychological benefits of his sport. "The most important single indica tor of overall health is cardiovascular endurance, which is what running develops," he wrote. Thus there was irony mixed with tragedy when Fixx died this month at 52 from a heart attack while pounding the road in Vermont. Last week...
Whatever technology or ingenuity could provide, ABC bought. At a cost of more than $150,000, it built a sleek futuristic van, 22 ft. long and 7 ft. wide, packing it with cameras and monitors to record the 26 miles and 385 yds. of the marathon. The van's shots of runners will be supplemented by hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary...
...Gang" of pillaging the American economy and environment. But the Democratic rhetoric sometimes fell oddly on the ear. For all the talk of compassion, there was in the Democrats' words and attitudes an insistently selfish sense of entitlement. If, in the Democratic version, the Reagan Republican is a sleek, smug, oblivious Darwinian, the Democrats left themselves open to being regarded as a collection of tribes endlessly brawling over things for themselves. Even the feminists demanding the nomination of a woman vice-presidential candidate acted for reasons that were selfish - as well as perfectly valid and historically necessary...
Summer is a time for rediscovering familiar pastimes: picnics, baseball games and trips to the beach. This season millions of Americans are enjoying a kind of fun they have not had in years: a spin in a sleek, shiny new car. More buyers are flocking to auto showrooms than at any time since 1979. Instead of fuel-sipping "econoboxes," people are choosing cars with pep and pizazz that put pleasure back into driving. Says Len Scarano, general manager of the Arrow Auto Mall in Little Falls, N.J.: "A few years ago, people wanted to know only two things: the price...
ENGAGED. Kathleen Turner, 29, sleek and sexy movie actress (Body Heat, Romancing the Stone); and Jay Weiss, 29, New York City real estate developer. The wedding, the first for both, is set for August...