Word: workouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas Unterberg: Staying on the Run. On a typical weekday Unterberg rises at 6 a.m. and dons a sweatsuit. From his Park Avenue apartment, he runs 28 blocks to a health club for a 45-minute workout and then runs back...
Blame it on Flashdance. A seemingly impossible combination of a feminist Rocky, a bar girl Fame and Jane Fonda's Workout, Flashdance was planned before MTV even got on the air, and was in production when MTV first started to catch on. Critics, nevertheless, delighted in enumerating the movie's improbabilities and disparagingly pointed out its resemblance to a rock video. None of that seemed to trouble the paying public, which has forked over nearly $93 million to see Flashdance in the theater, an additional $47 million for the sound track and some $8 million for the privilege...
...subject and author of the 1,800-word cover story, "How to Stay Fit." (The President talked out the basics to a White House speechwriter, then rewrote the article himself.) In the first paragraph he throws down the gauntlet: "So, move over, Jane Fonda, here comes the Ronald Reagan workout plan...
With Blair getting a 48-save workout by the final buzzer, and with a game against Northeastern 48 hours away, he was lucky to have rested up the night before in Providence, where sophomore Dickie McEvoy made his first start of the season...
...blockbuster movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Retailers, already besieged by Indiana Jones fans and convinced that Raiders will quickly become the alltime home-video champ, have ordered a record 420,000 copies of the cassette. The two top video cassettes until now, Jane Fonda's Workout and Flashdance, have racked up sales of about 200,000 each...