Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union Square in lower Manhattan, early on a sweltering August day, romantical cats and pedantical cats, allegorical cats and metaphorical cats are assembling. They may be masquerading as Broadway performers-the nearly anonymous acting-singing-dancing dynamos who pump the American musical machine-but for as long as their stamina and luck hold out, they are the American Cats. Big or small, rotund or svelte, white or black or Oriental, a company of graceful felines is preparing to prance and caterwaul on the Winter Garden stage in a 2½-hr. extravaganza of song and dance (with hardly a word...
...hand does not yet have the stamina and control it once had, but the pianist is convinced that he will soon be performing Beethoven. Delighted to be playing with ten fingers again, he is not altogether unhappy that he had only five for so long. "There is no doubt that what seemed like the end of the world to me in my little life turned into an opportunity for growth, for expansion and a widening of horizons," he says. "It's been enough to make one believe in the justice of fate and destiny." -By Gerald Clarke
MOTOWN'S IN L.A. NOW. And the Motown acts which still skip around the country deliver performances which are mere shadows of the steamy Motown era. The Four Tops, wearing matching but noticeably larger suits, now sing only a medley of their half-dozen super hits, apparently lacking the stamina to bring the house down with full versions of "Standin' in the Shadows of Love" and "Reach Out I'll Be There...
...exercise to the disco beat and make the regimen fun; sex is, after all, a form of exercise for two. Says Helen Gurley Brown, who, as editor of Cosmopolitan, is paid to think about Topic A: "Women are becoming real sexual athletes now. Health gives women stamina that allows them to give full range to their sex drive...
...plot, afterall, called for morning-line favorites, Brazil and West Germany, to make the second round unscathed, having survived the grueling, two-week round-robin competition with stamina intact and muscle pulls at a minimum. The professionals who make up these national teams ordinarily tend toward cautious play; after all, too much money is involved to take chances. Income is more important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany...