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...Sweat, Albeit Only a Few Drops...
...once had a dream of timing a race, and woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat," he says. "I vowed to try to do everything that would keep me from timing again...
...stairmaster! She complains of the somewhat dated weight machines in the stair-master room. Beware, dearie, lest you put on muscle in spite of your impeccable sense of exercise fashion and modernity. Though our thoroughly sanitized sports-writer-in-a-bubble has surely never let slide a drop of sweat (telling, isn't it?) and smells only of flowers, she begrudges her fellow athletes a real workout. She wishes fervently that all sweaters wipe every drop of their salt from the machines lest she contract it. If the large windows do not offer superb ventilation, they are at least satisfactory...
...sweat and toil of an at athlete always add to the glory of the victory, as when Gwen Torrence came back from life-threatening foot injuries to win gold medals in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Yet this idea is not the apex of athletics, as it was for the Greeks...
...while a Cambridge University undergaduate in the 1970s, he drifted into a yearlong crime spree of shoplifting, check forgery, housebreaking and bank fraud--following the mysterious disappearance of his father, who had been sent to jail for embezzlement. The writing is stripped-down Dostoyevsky ("My head itched. Cold sweat ran down my flesh...."), the overall effect as unnerving and oddly exhilarating as the life of a secret thief apparently was for the author...