Word: welching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John W. Welch...
...kids. This one picture, Wolfgang Petersen's The Neverending Story, it's more like a movie for wimps. Here's this ten-year-old called Bastian, played by Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean...
...conquered. The worst is to live through the ordeal that follows: to submit. The suicides, the alcoholism, the mists of despair that today envelop many reservations all seem legacies of a colonial past that won't go away. "Winter in the blood" is the way James Welch, the Montana Blackfeet novelist, describes the consequences--a freezing up of the Indian psyche in the face of daily deprivations of the spirit. "I was," he writes, "as distant from myself as the hawk from the moon...
...Gentle bodybuilding. . . Passive insistence." That is not an ad slogan from Gandhi's Nonviolent Health Spa. It's the muscle-making motto of Raquel Welch, 43, who last week finished writing her entry into the bulging exercise-book market. "This was the first time I was able to say something firsthand," explains Welch, who spent a year collaborating with Husband-Photographer Andre Weinfeld, 37, on Raquel's Health and Beauty Book. "We didn't want the drill-instructor look-I think the pictures should be inspirational." Indeed. This is one time when the medium should...
...Military store. A city bus was even decorated in camouflage as a promotional stunt for the National Guard. Meanwhile in Hollywood, stars like Priscilla Barnes of Three's Company are donning camouflage and more exotic military wear. "I've sold flight coveralls to Raquel Welch," reports Jeff Stein, owner of the Camp Beverly Hills store. "She looks terrific in them...