Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marchais's words were an open indication of the increasing strain between the French Communists' allegiance to Moscow and their loyalty to the Mitterrand government. "Pro-Sovietism is like an old shell that won't break off," said a Parisian woman who is married to a Communist journalist. "Party leaders are incapable of telling the U.S.S.R. to go to hell when they [the Soviets] do outrageous things...
...with its older, more sedentary and conservative audience, the emphasis is on same. Virtually all of the 22 series making their debuts on ABC, CBS and NBC in the next month are clones or hybrids of other TV shows. To hit it big, you just have to know which strains to breed. The trouble is that in most of this fall's premieres the breeding does not show, only the strain...
...Colli may enjoy his 150-ft. to 200-ft. bouncing swoops down the side of a building, but safe rappelling technique demands a steady, slower rate of descent. Bouncing jumps and pendulum motions put a tremendous strain on the rope and the anchor points; if either fails, Colli could lose his life. It is unfortunate that your cover picture featured such unsafe techniques...
Instead of meekly succumbing to these hazards, which many assume to be modern man's natural lot, they are saying no to ennui and enervation by fighting back in a directly physical way-in the gym. Muscles rippling as they strain against heavy weights, chests swelling as they dance in an energized aerobics class, they are venting frustrations, building bodies and sharpening minds with one of mankind's oldest panaceas: exercise. They are America's physical elite, the new Spartans...
...true fanatics, however try to avoid sexual distractions as they strain to emulate the perfect bodies that are on display in venues like Muscle Beach in Venice, Calif. They muscle up in purely functional sweatshops; Rena's Gym in Chicago, for example, has no juice bars, hanging plants or fancy locker rooms here, just true grit. "You don't come to this gym to meet people," says Owner Rena Ettlinger, whose exercise instructors are all physiologists trained in kinesiology, the science of body movement. "The goal here is long, lean, tight, firm bodies that are powerful all over...