Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lennihan was a Radcliffe senior when she took her first meditation class with the Chinmoy group six years ago. Earlier the turmoil of the widening war in Indochina and the student strikes led her to take a year off to explore different forms of yoga and meditation. "I was into radical politics, women's liberation. It was a time of great searching, and I was looking to help make the world better," she says. "For each person looking, there's one kind of answer and for me this was it, I just knew it." She continued to live and work...
...mind is the way fantasy interferes with and distorts perceptions of reality. Having picked up a chauffeur (Richard Romanus) who is obsessed with writing "the Great American Song," the criminals soon add two ladies to their entourage. One, sweetly played by Patrice Townsend, is a yoga adept, a diet freak and, it develops, something of a nymphomaniac who brings a musical Teddy bear to bed with her as she seduces all the males present. Her friend, well played by Irene Forrest, is the opposite: a woman so noisily trying to find herself that she is bound to lose herself...
Because the commercial is composed of vignettes, extensive auditions are necessary. The search for the right cowboy ends in a compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...
...despite their incongruous and distant appearance, the Sikhs (pronounced "seeks") have taken time from their meditating and yoga, to participate actively in the commercial and spiritual realms of Cambridge and Boston. The 40-member religious group runs Golden Temple Footwear, Golden Temple Restaurant, a carpentry group called Golden Temple Craftsmen, and offers lessons in nutrition, marital counseling, and Kundalini Yoga in their center above Belgian Fudge. They live together in an ashram in Dorchester, a string of four houses, and one of 125 ashrams in America. In the nine years since the ashram's founding they say they have developed...
...candidate. Mugabe has little personal magnetism. He lacks the easy humor and earthiness of Nkomo, and seems temperamentally unsuited to the rough and tumble of African politics. His personal regimen is ascetic: he sleeps only three or four hours a night, does a daily 45-minute workout of yoga and calisthenics, eats monastically light meals, neither smokes nor drinks. Shy and contemplative, he is not a rousing platform speaker, and in fact did less active campaigning than any other major candidate...