Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEIGHT LIFTING...
...catcher's mitt. All of which will jiggle around the middle of her breakfast companion, who's having the same. But in the white-hot furnace that drives Janet Evans, it will burn to ash well before her three hours of afternoon tank time are finished and her daily weight-room session begins...
...charge is not without weight. Since the collapse of the U.S.S.R., Bubka has become the most successful pitchman to emerge from the wreckage of the Soviet sports machine, striking a fat endorsement deal with Nike that has made his face as familiar to Europeans as Bo Jackson's and Michael Jordan's are to Americans. Marketing savvy has served Bubka well, establishing him not only as a man of the world record, but also as a man of the world, who maintains for his family a pied-a-terre in Berlin, a condo in Monaco and an apartment...
...victim of TV addiction--all he knows about life he learned as a neglected child parked in front of the tube. When its stupid pieties don't work in real life, he embraces its other method of problem solving: violence. Hard even for Carrey to riff under that weight; his director, Ben Stiller, is more awed than helpful. Aiming, perhaps, for a neat double helix of black humor and prankishness, they've ended up with a pretty ugly granny knot...
...Mike is one of those guys who is always in the weight room, playing summers, doing something every day," Anderson says. "He was very successful as a freshman, and what is most impressive about Mike is that he has continued to improve. He always wants to get better...