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...year screen veteran who has sat through the official Oscar event only once, the year he won ("Do you go for any other reason?"), was also there. "I'm enjoying myself this year," he said. "Any time they give you an award, you pay for it, baby. You sweat. And it's not good to sweat when you're dressed up in black...
...challenge or response. One is a quiet sales supervisor for a soft-drink company who not only believes in his company's product but in its advertising. Another sells mutual funds. Dickey's narrator, Ed Gentry, runs a Southern graphics studio cheerfully described as a "no-sweat shop." Just occasionally he is nudged by a fear of encroaching flab and a feeling that he is sliding too easily through life. Of them all, only Lewis Medlock seems outward-bound for the heart of darkness. At 38, he is an expert archer, spelunker, weight lifter and fiend for physical...
...would anybody run 50 times up and down the Stadium steps, row on the Charles in February, sweat and fast his normal 180 pounds down to 165, break his back and bloody his hands with seven other athletes...
Harman and the other lightweights endure the double strain of crew and losing weight. Lights must have an average weight of 155 and no man in the boat can weigh over 160, Many oarsmen begin the winter at a normal weight of 180. They run, they row, they sweat, they diet, and then they run some more to lose the necessary pounds...
...Perseverance? Good times? Justifying his existence? He isn't really sure. He likes his teammates, he likes the game, he needs to sweat a few inches off his paunch. He says that he doesn't like to stand in the goal and have people shoot at him, but then, he says, "that's the challenge...