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...Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror. Roger ran around the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pigflesh appeared. Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch, and the terrified squealing became a high...
During the latter scene, Phoebe is wearing a pair of shapeless sweat-pants, child's baseball cap in bright blue and a particularly loud sweater. The movie does no better with comedy than with romance--scenes that are not maudlin tend to be pathetic. There is a pronounced effort to make the cast look as unappealing as possible, presumably to add a comic touch and to scoff convention. "Who does your wardrobe, Quasimodo?" Jason asks Phoebe in one of his lucid moments...
...stationary exercise bicycle at Los Angeles' Nautilus Spectrum: "I can't fathom being with a woman who's not in good shape." Glancing at the tall, slender, dark-haired woman pedaling next to him, he observes, "Any time you see a woman who knows how to sweat like that, you just gotta get to know her." The woman, A.J. Bernstein, 35, a freelance photographer, has the same ideal. "I'm not turned on by flab," she says. "Men get hostile when I take off my clothes and they discover what kind of shape...
...catharsis, a release. It's my moment of solitude," says Paul Karlin, 30, a restaurant owner and weight lifter from Bethesda, Md. "It gets you breathing hard. You sweat. Your mind is consumed by the motion of what you are trying to do and by the pain factor. But when you stop, it's like coming down from a high." Like some proud corps of crack troops, the new Spartans are dedicated to an ideal of fitness that far surpasses conventional images of weekend joggers. "I enjoy being strong," says Houston Librarian Amy Mollberg, 39, who lifts free...
...East Bank Club, where Mayster and 8,000 other puffing Chicagoans work out, is one of the glittering sweat palaces that have proliferated to service these upscale fitness enthusiasts. Like its fancy counterparts elsewhere-New York City's Vertical Club and the New York Health & Racquet Club, suburban Washington's Sporting Club, Houston's Texas Club, the San Francisco Bay Club, West Los Angeles' Holiday Health Spa-the club has a clientele of well-to-do professionals, whose Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs crowd the underground garage...