Word: beach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the beach, but hate the crowds and the high prices, this is the place...
Since any self-respecting professor can be found on the Cape in the summer months, you might think a trip there over the break would leave you alone on the beach with your history prof. But not to worry--March is safe. All the academics are grading papers in their offices...
...sitting on a pure, white beach, gazing out on the water as windsurfers leisurely float by. A nearby radio is playing Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds." As you take a sip of your drink, you notice a group of people walking along the beach in bathing suits. The women look like Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, the men like Chippendale dancers...
Perhaps publishers really believe that a model carrying a surfboard sheds light on some vital aspect of either surfing or current beach fashion. But the more probable explanation for the wave of February cheesecake issues is money...
...biggest losers of all in the swimsuit issue arena are women. Beach pictorials are about the most exposure women get in any single issue of magazines such as Sports Illustrated. The imbalance suggests that women are most newsworthy when they are passive sex symbols. This is a warped idea in an age when the United States' brightest Olympic star was not a man, but sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner...