Word: workout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match his 6-ft. 5-in. size, and even the bench warmers were stars back home. What's more, they have been working at their trade. "I only played six games at Oxford last year," says Bradley, and his training with the Knicks was limited to one workout...
...Director Sargent Shriver dropped in on the James gang to see how the money was being spent. Accompanied by Jesse, he looked in on a highly informal catch-up class for high school dropouts, tuned an ear to an aspiring musical group practicing on bongos and guitars, watched a workout in the boxing ring, inspected the carpentry shop where Rebels were hard at work sharpening their skills for union apprenticeship exams, and came away impressed. "This is of the people and for the people," Shriver said. "I believe we should have thousands of groups like it, where the people...
Last week's game proved very little. It is hard to agree with Coach John Yovicsin that, "We weren't much better than Lafayette." But even so, the Crimson hardly got a stiff workout. Zimmerman looked confident and sharp toward the end of the first half. But he takes a while to warm up and we will have to wait and see this time...
...going on"-someone like Lee Marvin, for example, or Gore Vidal, George Plimpton or Greer Garson (who once played a tiny harmonica held between her teeth). Some of the liveliest moments have been provided not by celebrities but by people with unusual interests. Carson had a hilarious workout recently with William Ottley, a sky diver who gave Johnny a lesson in the art right on-camera. On the other hand, the worst guests, says Carson, are "movie stars in quotes"-the people who have no interests beyond their own careers...
...girls themselves. Each one seems genuinely to hope that the other will win the Oscar, but neither is the sort to grump for long if someone else gets it.* For one thing, they keep too busy to think about prizes and such. In Manhattan, Lynn gets a thorough workout eight times a week in Black Comedy. Her role calls for some adroit tricks, since the action takes place in a house where the light fuse has blown. To let the audience see what is happening, the stage lights are actually turned on, and the performers have to act as though...