Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pinter never shouts. He whispers, and his whispers echo endlessly. Performed by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Peter Hall, his drama is as entertaining as it is compelling. As the whispers speak of family, of love, of men and women, of exploitation, every word carries weight, every pause makes a point...
Orphan Annie's Eyes Peripheral actors, too, play poignant roles in Manchester's panoply. The eight-man military casket team that carried Kennedy's coffin up the 36 steps into the Capitol rotunda on Nov. 24 was astonished at its weight and nearly dropped it. That night they were terrified at the thought of the next day's funeral procession, when they would have to carry it down again. The officer in charge ordered a coffin from Fort Myer, had it filled with sandbags, and at midnight took his team to the Tomb of the Unknown...
...well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was a major effort, exiting from a cab became a three-minute ordeal. Now life is considerably lighter and brighter for Bostwick: in ten months he has shed 170 lbs. How? By belonging to Weight Watchers Inc., an organization that is making such dramatic reductions commonplace...
...Weight Watchers pay $3 for initiation and $2 weekly for dues. In return, they receive a fairly conventional list of recommended foods (high on proteins, low on carbohydrates, nothing fried), along with a stern admonition to eat only three reasonable meals a day and keep a careful watch on between-meal snacking. What makes Weight Watchers different from most other dieters is that they usually follow the prescribed regimen faithfully. The secret: frequent meetings, similar to the sessions of Alcoholics Anonymous, at which a lecture is followed by statements by each member on how much weight he has gained...
...since had a face bone shattered, a rib broken and three vertebrae cracked. Last week in Phoenix, a bull threw him alongside a metal barrel in which a rodeo clown was hiding, then turned, charged, missed Mahan by a hair, but caught the barrel and butted its 300-lb. weight 6 ft. into the air. The clown was lucky to escape with only minor injuries. It was a close call for all concerned. "I consider myself fortunate," says Mahan. "Oh, I worry sometimes. But the thing I like most about rodeo is that it's so unpredictable...