Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found work for Gelsey as a child model. She detested it "because it was so upsetting to miss a class." A dance scholarship came to the rescue and put her in classes 12½ hours a week. Twice a day she and her classmate Meg Gordon donned rubber sweat pants and took turns stretching each other's legs, an ordeal that often left Gelsey weeping. Her muscles were taut and had to be tugged mercilessly if she was to achieve extension, the astonishing limb span demanded of great dancers...
...customary bravos at A.B.T.'s Lincoln Center opening program and then, with Schafer and some friends, lingered at a West Side restaurant until 2 a.m. Now, with four hours of sleep behind her, Gelsey is a ragamuffin hiding from attention, swathed in a tentlike brown tunic and baggy sweat pants. The rehearsal piano pounds away, and Howard's piercing voice ("Now up, now up, now up ") guides some 90 students through a long series of stretches and drills. Morning sunlight pours through the tall windows; the air is humid with exertion. Gelsey moves among the stretching, straining bodies, her eyes...
...Eckersley will help," Keane said, "but Wise pitched one of the best games I ever saw in spring training...since '68 when Jose Santiago pitched a beauty..." He took another belt and mopped the sweat off his head, burnt brilliant crimson and tinged with frosty gray hair...
...only one who wasn't in full uniform or at least a $50 sweat-suit. He finished his laps wearing a tattered gym-class t-shirt and sat down with me to talk...
...hard for the dangling carrot in front of you, all you'll do is spend your energy too fast and when it comes time to get the carrot, you're not in the position to enjoy it or ever make the effort..." he sighed, dripping sweat on the turf, and looking around anxiously...