Word: unwinds
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...retrospect, the whole thing was fun, though at the time, it was painful," he added. To unwind, "We did your standard juvenile camp acts, but with a vengeance...
...relaxation boom spreads, as corporate America learns its mantras and chronic worriers unwind their minds, the point, then, is not to escape the effects of stress, which are inescapable in any case, but to channel and control them. Between the fight-or-flight spasms of too much tension and the dullness and dormancy of too little, the challenge for each person is to find the level of manageable stress that invigorates life instead of ravaging it. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin/Boston and Dick Thompson/ San Francisco
...curmudgeon bewildered by his pretty young wife, disagrees with the rich uncle as to which nephew is the more deserving; a game of mistaken identities is utilized to test the character of the young Surfaces; and several infidelities intervene. It all takes a bit more than three hours to unwind, and somehow, in the end, if all fits...
...instruction, equipment and dinners of prime rib and smoked turkey, the ranch is half the price of similar downhill digs. But half price is only half the reason for the appeal. Ranch Operator Ken Jones says: "Most of our clientele are ex-downhillers. They're here to relax, unwind and get away from the throngs. Gliding through the trees without seeing or hearing anything is what's turning people...
Travis Bickle cruises this Pandemonium like an animal trying to unwind. He is an underground man for America, condemned to try to live a quiet life in enemy territory. But things won't leave him alone. Ther's no relief from the loneliness and frustration; The city never lets him off the hook. The world is a no-parking zone. All that remains is relentless movement, ugly rooms, ugly people, and dirty minds. No compassion. No grace. It just keeps coming. There's no pressure drop, no possible release. Spoken language is foreign to Bickle, and when he gets...