Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...created -- in Morocco, and on a pinchpenny budget of $6.5 million -- a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. It takes hard men to work this holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents.) By jolting the viewer to reconsider Hollywood's calcified stereotypes of the New Testament, Scorsese wants...
...demands are never ending, the sacrifices outrageous. Relentless workouts, a life lived in sweat. For what? A Greek traveler named Pausanias more than 1,800 years ago wrote of the "unique divinity" that cloaks the Olympics. The mystery may never be phrased better. The lure persists, transfixing competitors, enticing them to devote their lives to it. It leads women like Janet Evans to spend their youth in pools, logging the numbing laps, and men like Tim Daggett to suffer through injury after injury. All for a touch of that divinity...
...They cover themselves in tape and rosin and chalk, and sometimes glory. They take off in sprays of sawdust and alight in splashes of gold. They're driven, until they're driven out. Olympians are said to have a glow about them, and not just the glow of beaded sweat. But they make others glow as well. They mention who they are and say they are getting ready to go to the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, and whole rooms break out in smiles. Whole countries...
...says Author Barsky, "we find more things wrong with ourselves. We feel under siege." Everyday ailments, from tension headaches to forgetfulness, that would once have been dismissed as normal are now seen as a symptom of disease. "We're told that everything is an early-warning sign, from night sweats and gas pains to dry coughs," says Barsky. "But it's normal for some people to sweat at night, a dry cough will probably go away, and gas pains are gas pains." Americans, he declares, "have to stop running around trying to cure the ailments of everyday life and make...
...hopes she will never grow above 5'2" so that she can go to the Olympics. We watch her push herself practice after practice, with her upcoming meet as the only object of her attention. But we also watch her throw up after every practice, break out into sweat in her sleep, lose weight and pass out in front of her friends...