Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make gay people visible or detectable to enable them to meet each other. In fact, Gay Wednesday was a neat ploy to parody the notion that "you can tell" who's gay. The event tried to get straights to think about their prejudices for a day by making them sweat about whether people would think they were gay, and wonder why that should make them sweat...
...from his neck. I am trying desparately to avoid thinking what I am thinking, but he looks more like Charles Addams' Uncle Fester than anything else in the world. What is he wearing? He is wearing a red warm-up jacket with white piping and, or course, baggy gray sweat pants hiked up above his claves to reveal long black socks that tuck into shiny black house slippers. Apparently, this is all he ever wears...
Speaking in the subdued language favored by the voters of 1977, Koch promised little more than a New York version of blood, sweat and tears. Koch emphasized the need for further budget cutting and restraint on the once insatiable municipal unions. He reminded voters that even in bygone days when it was less fashionable, he had favored capital punishment for certain heinous crimes. To offset his loner image, he was usually accompanied during the campaign by Bess Myerson, 53, a former Miss America (1945) and a New York City commissioner of consumer affairs...
Good as Bancroft is, it is not her performance alone that makes the picture work. Director Ross, a sometime choreographer, conveys the sweat "and hard work of dance, the sheer pain of the effort to appear effortless. Writer Laurents has a similar capacity for catching the pretenses and bitchiness of life in a dance company. These touches lie at the heart of the picture's appeal, grounding it in a reality that offsets its gee-whizness
...seven-year-old boys, a 60-year-old ex-member of the Spanish national team, and, yes, even girls, brought beads of sweat to their brows in their energetic efforts to make the ball do their bidding. There was at least one girl, that is, tirelessly seeking to banish from male chauvinists' minds the ago-old myth that "the weaker sex" can't play sports...