Word: whirlpools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Based on the theme of health, this year's "ultimate gifts," perhaps because of current economic woes, are not quite so extravagant. Sakowitz's biggie is a personal home health care center that includes his-and-her locker rooms, whirlpool, steamroom, indoor track and gym, an exercise room, a First Aid room, and a health food bar. You provide the land, and Sakowitz will build the complex for $1.6 million...
...women, and ads extoll features like cushioned and arched insoles for its new line of track shoes. Maytag Co. commercials emphasize that their repairmen are "the loneliest people in the world" because the company's washing machines are so well made that nobody needs to have them repaired. Whirlpool, which also produces washing machines, links craftsmanship to patriotism. Its commercials show inspirational scenes of eagles in flight, while a voice-over intones that pride of workmanship made the nation great. Even the fast-food industry is catching the trend. Wendy's touts the quality of its hamburgers instead...
...environment" into "an immense imdustry...in aid of health." We have become obsessed with health, he contends, and there is something unhealthy about this. "We do not seem to be seeking exuberance in living as much as...putting off dying." While our society may have become a giant whirlpool treatment concerned with collective physiotherapy," Thomas's analysis of our motivation is missing something. He correctly states that we jog and diet because we fear dying, but we may also think we're helping ourselves...
...screams. "That son of a bitch is coming right at us! Now! Let's go!" He jams the truck into gear, and we race north. Behind, hardly the length of a football field away, the ground beneath the tornado is suddenly lost in a dark howling whirlpool. Then the truck is hit again with the full force of the hail. A shower of red dirt and debris tossed up by the tornado batters it. Minutes later, as Moore pulls into Covington, tornado sirens suddenly fill...
...clubhouse. Jim Bouton perfected the pitch with Ball Four, and as a sequel ex-Yankee Sparky Lyle this season spikes up dirt about the world champs in The Bronx Zoo. Then there's Philadelphia Phillies Reliefer Tug McGraw, 34. When his arm is in the whirlpool, McGraw's mind is busy thinking up baseball fairy tales for children. He is working on one about a boy from the Bowery and his dog who both make it to the majors and another in which balls, bats and gloves come alive. "I'm sure lots of people want...