Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eyewitness News, Kaity is on call seven days a week, so Bob flies in to spend two weeks with her every month. The rest of the marriage is conducted by telephone. They talk six or seven times a day, and last month their phone bill was $800. "I tuck her in at night and wake her up in the morning," says Bob, who stays accessible to Kaity at all times through various paging and answering services. "There is nothing good about separation, but we refuse to let it be an obstacle," he says. "She thinks I'm cute...
...Christmas cards we put on our mantels and tuck in our Venetian blinds are not just greetings from relatives, friends, would-be friends and dry cleaners. They are mirrors of American culture-the neighborly and the utopian, the tacky and the cutesie, the schmaltzy and the smutty, the corny and the phony, the humorous and the sentimental. Lately there are also some fresh and appealing designs, as well as good...
...have to laugh, or else you'd cry," says a recruit named Elizabeth on the first day of training. The women are issued boots cut so badly that many get stress fractures and muscle spasms. One week they are ordered to tuck in their blouses to look like the males. The next week they are ordered not to, to avoid attracting male attention. Blamed as a group for the failure of any one of them, most still show a stubborn patriotic pride...
...health clubs built in the U.S.; 20 million overweight Americans-and 20 million more who believe they are-will join in the battle of the bulge by dieting this year; and an alltime high of 440,000 patients will elect cosmetic surgery to freshen their features and tuck in their tummies. As if to give the surprisingly durable trend an official fillip, President and Mrs. Reagan have joined the race. A Universal-type weight-lifting machine has just been installed in a spare room of the White House family quarters for almost daily workouts...
Simmons' weekday show is a chattery potpourri of exercise ("Tuck in those tushies, girls!"), diet tips ("Peanuts will make you full!") and cheery behavior-mod patter. His Never-Say-Diet Book is No. 1 on the New York Times's bestseller list, where it has been lodged for 38 weeks. At 5 ft. 7 in., 138 Ibs., Simmons seems a model of svelte fitness, but he knows whereof he sweats. As a boy in New Orleans, he sampled so many crêpes suzette at the family's restaurant that by his 18th birthday he weighed...