Word: weights
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Pounds for Power. Cassius apparently took the threat to heart. He boxed more than 100 rounds in training, built his own weight up to 212 lbs. The added poundage, explained Trainer Angelo Dundee, was "for power"-but sportswriters scoffed at that. Some of them went so far as to call Cassius "the punchless wonder...
Tastes & Teflon. Today, when weight watching is a national pastime, the gargantuan fare of yesteryear is hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking...
...called dindon demi-désossé (see diagram). To make it easier to carve, the upper part of the rib cage is removed before roasting. She plans to use a sausage and bread-crumb dressing (rough measurement is I cup of dressing for each pound of "bought weight"), recommends marinating the cut-up breast meat in cognac, shallots, salt and pepper for 20 minutes while preparing the stuffing. "If you do your turkey this way," she says, "it will be haute cuisine-which means never leaving anything alone...
...Sviokla said flatly that he didn't care where he played. After undergoing a crash weight-training program, he became a real first class tackle. Norton agreed to play cornerback, and he has been our swing man in that position...
...midway between history and fiction" was fiction all along. Dos Passes' bare, flat non-style, in which events-tragical, comical, pastoral or historical-were impersonally told in the same tone of voice, can now be seen as a deliberate esthetic contrivance. The object? To convey by a massive weight of incident the feebleness of the individual within the com plex web of modern industrial society, technologically sophisticated but barbarous in human terms, its impersonality the enemy of the person. Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the few leftist intellectuals to take any interest in the later Dos Passos, once said...