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But even if Americans are no lazier in the aggregate than they were 40 years ago, the rise of "extreme sports" underscores a trend that's a bit different and more interesting than the one Time is promoting: Namely, that a small elite is engaging in pathologically daring leisure activities requiring unprecedented physical fitness, while the rest of us are getting fat on chips and beer while we watch these gladiators on ESPN.
Bare mention is made of the most important and best-selling dictionaries published in the last fifty years, when the sales of all kinds of dictionaries exploded throughout the world.
I have been to a lot of New York screenings over the years, and have been surprised a) at how some critics feel the right to laugh scornfully or even talk back to the screen, and b) how so many of them loudly share their opinions of a film as soon as it's over.
The Beatles will play their first concert in 30 years.
Forty-two years later, however, that achievement seems less significant.