Word: stamina
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...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...
...Kenya, doctors prescribe steroid hormones for use against such vague complaints as poor appetite, lack of stamina and listlessness. Taken continuously in very large doses, steroids have caused clitoral enlargement in young girls and beard growth and baldness in women...
...television lights, both men sprayed sweat like revolving lawn sprinklers. Holmes, 6 ft. 3 in. and 212½ lbs., and Cooney, 6 ft. 6 in. and 225½ lbs., looked equally fit. Cooney, who lad never before been required to answer a bell for a ninth round, displayed more stamina than even he expected. Afterward he admitted, "When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without hat doubt...
Mercuric Tidings, a new work set to excerpts from two Schubert symphonies, extends the choreographer's concern with the limits of stamina. For 23 grueling minutes, 1 3 members of the company, swathed in flamingo pink, fly, leap, bounce, swirl and tumble. The activity never pauses, and is so speedy it constitutes a work hazard. Says Katz: "You can't watch it from the wings. They come so close to each somebody." other, Taylor you're may sure finally they'll have kill constructed a piece too difficult for even his kinetic company. The premiere performance...