Word: callan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a warm-up exercise. The real work is promotion, which you should do for as many hours a day as your body can stand. But what if, after all that effort, the book is still headed for terminal inactivity on the remainder shelf? Hear now the tale of Callan Pinckney, whose deep-muscle-exercise regimen hit best-seller lists an unheard- of 14 months after it was published...
...Facing surgery, Pinckney decided instead to refine some exercises she had learned during years of adolescent ballet lessons. So impressive were the results that she began to teach friends in New York City, where she was living (and where she had changed her name to Callan on the advice of a numerologist). Enraged by what she considered misinformation in other exercise books, she spent two years writing her own. Pinckney contends that most exercises do not reach far enough into muscles, and she has developed a combination of stretching and deep contractions aimed particularly at tightening the stomach and lifting...
...Bradshaw and basketball player Carol Greene, informed of the program last spring, decided to get the program off the ground for the present school year. They attended a VFY summer seminar at Springfield State College, and were later joined by co student directors Erin Callan and Mike Haas. The four initiated the program last fall by matching 15 Harvard students with Cambridge children...
Kamilla Bren, Richard L. Callan, Paul Duke, Christopher J. Georges, Kristin A. Goss, Peter J. Howe, Holly A. Idelson, Rachel H. Inker, Rebecca R. Kramnick, Charles T. Kurzman, Jonathon S. Sapers, Cyrus M. Sanal and Melissa I. Weissberg contributed to the reporting for this article...
...scratched. Then, with the twisting, barely paved, 1½-lane, 7-mile road up to the ranch flooded out in half a dozen spots, the visit was almost canceled altogether. No, wait, it was definitely on. But British reporters could not come. "This will not do!" bellowed Paul Callan of the Daily Mirror at a White House aide. 'The British press will storm the ranch!" All right already, you can come...