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Isaksson compensates for his lack of heft by weight lifting. Sometimes he overcompensates. In 1969 he compressed two vertebrae in his spine while lifting 220 Ibs. That is why his regimen calls for Turkish massage after two-hour daily workouts. The injury also explains why he recently canceled a trip to the U.S. for an Olympic warmup match with Seagren. Off the track, Isaksson has garnered something of a reputation as a swinger, but denies having a regular girl friend. Says he: "If a guy is really in love, it's easy for him to begin to cut down...
Hound's action takes place in a theater on opening night. It is a spoof of an Agatha Christie thriller, and Stoppard handles it with prankish zest, though it lacks the urbane comic polish and spine-prickling tremors that Anthony Shaffer put into his Christie takeoff, Sleuth. The subplot concerns two drama critics who observe and comment on the play and eventually get actively drawn into it at no small risk. Here Stoppard is sly and wry, and one may guess that he views critics with bemused affection and subdued contempt...
...Little Indians is about as melodramatic as they come. But this theater-club standby still sent a tingle of suspense and terror down my spine. Considering that I've read the book and seen the play twice before, that Kirkland House crowd must be doing something right...
...shock to offer some sharp, personal comments. After the trip to the army base Cronkite noted that the tanks being destroyed in a training exercise were American and that the division, the 196th, had killed many Americans in Korea. The thought gave him, he said, "a chill up the spine." Eric Sevareid, after touring Peking University, noted that the intellectual level was that of a U.S. junior college. "Today," he said, "China is counter-revolutionary as regards the human mind...
...intermittently from 1909 to 1930. They give an extraordinary vision of his working methods in all their tenacity. The back, in its successive versions, turns from a deeply in dented landscape of bulges and arabesques, with gullies of shoulder blade and buttocks radiating from the central valley of the spine, into an image with the vast immobility of a mountain - abstracted to a point where its human quality is nearly lost, but pervaded by a strange, healing calm...