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...each other around in an almost elderly fashion. Some of them, tired from running in the woods or straining against the weightlifting contraptions, actually slept. They came to this hot-house wearing double layers of sweatsuits with towels around their heads, and even as they slept they kept a sweat running. Tight against the wall and in the corners of the room where they would not accidentally be rolled on, they lay in mounds like bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...neighborhoods rather than destroying them. Baltimore's homesteading program, the nation's most ambitious, has preserved scores of blocks of dilapidated but essentially sound and potentially elegant 19th century red-brick row houses?something of a city trademark. For a $1 purchase price per house and the promise of "sweat equity," private citizens are restoring such historic neighborhoods as Ridgeley's Delight, Otterbein, Barre Circle, Stirling Street, Durham Street and Washington Hill. There is a similar program of "shopsteading," whereby businessmen are encouraged to salvage old stores. Notes City Planner Larry Reich: "Nothing happens here by itself. People have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: He Digs Downtown | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...taut mechanism of the movie's plot. She creates between herself and Ned a sexual attraction that erases the past and suggests terrible new options. And she knows, as a young woman whose Midwestern memories are as sordid as her Palm Beach present is posh, that she must sweat for what she wants. The film and the other characters sweat with her. Perspiration stains the satin sheets as Ned and Matty make love; and after, there is dew on the down of her back as she caresses and coaxes him. She is the mistress of these ceremonies, leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Torrid Movie, Hot New Star | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...excited to be here. I miss baseball and wake up some nights in a cold sweat," Peter Ford, who made the trip from Cleveland to watch his first minor league game, said. He sat in the best seats--$3.50--in the park...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Mud Hen Fever | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

...lives up to Kermit's early promise: "Boy, I wish I were you people seeing this picture for the first time." Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo and the rest are more at home subverting the rigid formulas of TV. But as the Divine Miss P says here, "Not to sweat." The Muppets blend in seamlessly with real-life locations, and the sow's dear herself stars in an elaborately silly underwater ballet that should leave Esther Williams wrinkled with envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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