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...double biceps, that classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your hands a little below your naval, force your chest and neck out, strain until every vein looks like a pencil and your face looks like it's not going to last very...much...longer, and that's the most muscular...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...personality. I went through a year when I did more coke than most people will ever do in a lifetime. I went from weighing 188 Ibs. to 150 Ibs. The first time I did it, I was into heroin, so I cooked it up and shot it into a vein. A few minutes later my whole body was going cold. It felt like I was going to faint or was getting seasick. The whole world was going gray, everybody in the room getting real distant. I was going limp and lifeless, and the only thing I could think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...that would probably mollify Rep. Gore, Vice-Chancellor Park and others, Lamont-Havers concedes, adding that Mass General has been hard at work on regulations for industrial affiliations since 1975. In his annual report, Bok said he would urge the entire faculty to hasten its efforts along a similar vein...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Biotechnology and the Faustian Dilemma | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...compose a score that did not sound like outtakes from The Pirates of Penzance. Because of this metrical restriction, Lloyd Webber could not have matched the profligate melodiousness of his score for Evita if he had tried. He has not; he works mostly in the loud Europop vein, hurling his listeners up against the caterwaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Going to London to See the Queen? | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...most familiar advance dates from 1967, when surgeons performed the first bypass operation on a patient with a coronary artery blockage. In the procedure, a vein taken from the patient's leg is grafted to the aorta and to the unobstructed portion of the coronary artery, thus detouring blood around the blocked area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming the No.1 Killer: Heart Disease | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

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