Word: workouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest rates to augment the Wall Street coverage; Ungeheuer was asked to contribute to that. Then on Thursday, "I had to start reporting on rumors about Mexico's threatened default and its impact." Ungeheuer brought years of deadline experience in foreign and financial reporting to his rugged workout last week. And he could draw on sources developed when he was TIME'S European economic correspondent and when he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank editing two international business newsletters. A West German-born foreign exchange student who came to the U.S. in 1950 to go to Milwaukee...
...this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room, with her perfect body." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker journalist and humorist, wonders whether this new ideal woman is only a media spin-off from the popularity of Jane Fonda and her bestselling Workout Book (see box page 75). "For the public good," Trillin says, "the more people who can lift the end of a car off the ground in case of trouble, the better. But I'm not sure I see any other advantages to it. Speaking as one whose muscles don't ripple...
...said. "You don't want to stroke her, you want to sand her down." Dale Pollock, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, complained, "That scene is supposed to be the climax of the film. Instead, it's a commercial for Jane Fonda's Workout Book." If so, the commercial did its job. Work-out (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list (No. 1 for 21 weeks). The book has become the focus for a baby conglomerate that mints money...
...Jane Fonda's Workout Book, Fonda...
NONFICTION 1 . Life Extension, Pearson and Shaw (6) 2. Jane Fonda's Workout Book, Fonda (1) 3. Living, Loving, and Learning, Buscaglia (2) 4. Princess, Lacey (3) 5. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Kushner (5) 6. Richard Simmons' Never-Say-Diet Cookbook, Simmons (4) 7. No Bad Dogs, Woodhouse (7) 8. How to Make Love to a Woman, Morgenstern (8) 9. Speak Up with Confidence, Valenti 10. A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, Rooney...