Word: stamina
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Traditionally the Lowell House Opera invites professional singers from outside of Harvard to participate in their annual production. In the leading role of Mrs. Ford. Martha Warren displays a talent that more than substantiates her credentials. A recent semi-finalist in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera auditions. Warren has incredible stamina and poise. But what makes her performance unique is the tremendous amount of personality she brings to her character...
...chop on the broiler. Jamail's husband Randall, a lawyer, has been converting yuppie friends by boasting that his energy level increased dramatically after he gave up meat. "These are power brokers who don't need that 2 p.m. sinking spell," he says. "They want that edge, the extra stamina that gets them ahead...
Dukakis has always displayed enormous emotional stamina. He was shattered by his gubernatorial defeat in 1978, but slowly put himself back together. He cannot be intimidated. Legislators sometimes storm into his office to challenge him, but he stays dead calm. One day a house leader, furious that Dukakis opposed certain legislation, suddenly began kicking at chairs and flicking cigar ashes on the Governor's desk. Dukakis, arms folded, sat and stared at him. His refusal to compromise became a trademark in the legislature. Remembers a resentful senate leader: "He always wanted...
...admitted that the mountain gods were in no mood for a ski race. Back at ABC's hype central, talkers with dead air to fill turned to -- who else? -- Dr. Ruth, TV's advice giver to the sexlorn. Bearing in mind that the downhill demands superb reflexes and great stamina, did she counsel sex for the athletes in the 24 hours before the race? "Vell," said this ever reasonable sage in her schlagobers accent, making love all night wasn't a good idea, "but a qvickie...
That settled, to everyone's relief, athletes and onlookers conserved stamina for another 24 hours and tried again. Next morning the weather was benign. Only the racecourse was horrific: at the top an icy centrifuge of steep, high- speed turns, and past the midpoint, where racers still on their skis carried speeds of 80 m.p.h., a snaky, relatively flat descent over jarring, artificially created bumps and depressions. Luxembourg's two-time World Cup champion Marc Girardelli said that Mount Allan's downhill was the "most difficult in the world," worse than Kitzbuhel's thunderous Hahnenkamm...