Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deLima, playing the spirited Rosalinda, dominated the production with her dynamic voice and smirking facial expressions. Particularly charming was the duet in which deLima seduces Edward Upton (Eisenstein, Rosalinda's husband) in disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting nonetheless compensated for want of volume...
Most of the questions were simple: height, weight, age, and edness, eye and hair color. Some were more complicated: ethnicity, area of study, sexual orientation, number and gender of sexual partners dating back five years...
...majority of men and women on this campus maintain body weights that in no way pose any real threat to their health. However, Cucci describes the horrors of fat and weight gain in a manner more suitable for a Puritan diatribe against sin than a rational plan for greater fitness. He presents overeating as a "temptation" that the strong can resist but through which the weak snack their way to their eventual "self-destruction." Those who eat therefore lack discipline and control and need to be saved from their own cravings...
Most disturbing is the author's assertion that many students justifiably "want to lose weight and improve their bodies, but simply do not know how." Even if this were true, simply sending students to the gym and nutrition class will not solve the problem. Perhaps Mr. Cucci is unaware of just how many college students, mostly women, spend time worrying about their weight. According to a recent study, as many as 30 percent of women in college and graduate school show symptoms of an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Many of these women would fall into the category...
...college to be educated. Many of these students do see this as an education of both the body and the mind and engage in athletic as well as intellectual pursuits. But the decisions to participate in such activities are made voluntarily, by individuals. Leave the mandatory nutrition seminars to Weight Watchers and fitness reigmen to the Naval Academy. Elisabeth Mayer...