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...They all work in gyms all day, the best own gyms. Bob quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger as if he were the chairman of bodybuilding--"Arnold says people who talk about bodybuilders being sissies are just jealous," "According to Arnold, there's no feeling as good in the entire world (wink)." And then he's back to work, because the competition is only a month away, and there's the pecs to work on, and the traps, and the thighs and the triceps. Oh, there's so much left to be done, and, as Bob points out, "The contests...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

...amazed what people will do to get near this car," says Gadlock. "They'll offer you money and booze, they'll offer to come to your room." That's with a wink. "Hell," he says, "if they want to come to my room, that's fine. But I don't want it to have anything to do with the car." Gadlock, who tells everything under twenty-four and female that they're looking "awful pretty today," is adamant about that. There's a weird ethic going on here with this car. "Hell, now, I wouldn't sleep with Raquel Welch...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...lack of effective laws and the priority of other cases caused the long delay in following through on Mulcahy's information. But some Justice officials suggest that CIA agents had impeded faster action. One prosecutor told TIME, "When you deal with the CIA everything is done with a wink and a nod. And there was a lot of winking and nodding going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trafficking in Terror for Libya | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

Conservative intellectuals are aficionados of the wink, full of rollicking good fun, by nature a sly sort. Hence, the masthead of The American Spectator contains the following witticisms: it lists a "chief saloon correspondent," and makes the contention that "Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short" has been reatained as the periodical's legal counsel. And that...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Love, Death and Taxes | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...physical player, crashing the boards and picking up more than his share of points on offensive rebounds. With Joe Carrabino, they formed the best rookie combination in the Ivy League, perhaps in all of the east. His pivot is a thing of beauty. Speaking of Carrabino, rumor has it (wink, wink) that the New England basketball coaches voted him the best rookie in Division...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Hoop Season; Images and Reflections | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

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