Word: vic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest chain of sweatshops in the U.S. is owned lock, stock and bar bell by wedge-shaped Californian Vic Tanny, 48, an ex-weight lifter whose sell is every bit as hard as his muscles. Capitalizing on the fetish of physical fitness, Tanny has lured more than a million Americans into some 80 chrome-and-red-carpet Vic Tanny gyms scattered across the U.S., signed them up to membership contracts of six months (typical East Coast price: $185) to "permanent" (seven years: $360) on the pay-as-you-perspire plan. Last week in Chicago, Tanny's muscular sell...
Heading the freshmen is Lou Williams, a hard worker who makes the most of a long reach. Immediately behind him are Vic Niederhoffer and John Vinton, the brother of a member of last year's varsity. Niederhoffer had never played squash before this winter, but has competed extensively in tennis and paddle tennis. Vinton relies mainly on speed on the court and volleyed shots...
...member of the Crimson coaching staff since 1950, Schmitt will leave in two weeks to begin preparations for next fall with Vic Fusia, newly appointed head coach of the Redmen. The last holdover from the staff of Lloyd Jordan, Schmitt has said that accepted the job at Mass for reasons of "financial advancement...
There is little story to speak of. Like the author, the book's hero is the son of a Yorkshire coal miner. At 21, Vic Brown is so innocent and wholesome that England's angry young men wouldn't be caught taking a pint of bitter with him in a pub. Vic's trouble is, quite simply, sex and one particular girl. She is a "bint" who works in his office-legs right, figure right, fresh and sweet-smelling at 18. After a few bashful fumbles, Vic finds that he has "compromised" a nice but very...
This may be one of the oldest marriage stories in the world. Then why read it? Because Author Barstow often makes the human situation quiver on the page. Vic tells the story in the first person-and in rich, casual slang-with a kind of boyish innocence that is no mere storytelling contrivance. Everything from inexperienced sex to the showdown with mother-in-law has the edge of simple truth on it. In the end, the fact that Vic's story has been played out so often before wherever boy met girl does no damage; on the contrary...