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...here where we touch upon a thorny issue in the world of female athletics. The use of beauty, by athletes anyway, as a tool to get ahead in the world has drawn the ire of many a commentator, both male and female. Such was the case with Amanda Beard, who bared all in the July issue of Playboy. Many claimed that she was demeaning herself as a person, not to mention sending the wrong message about her sport. However, I’d venture to guess that Beard was pretty content with her choice: “It?...
...Beard and other women are lambasted for such acts. Contrary to male athletes who are lauded for their marketability (see: Beckham, David), when female athletes venture outside the immediate realm of athletic competition, they are criticized for diverting attention from the substance of their respective sports. Female athletes are simultaneously acclaimed and derided for their good looks, as was the case with Kournikova. Her appealing physique was largely responsible for making her so popular, but it led to a backlash from people who hated that she was famous for it. Instead of anyone suggesting that the people who drooled over...
...audience needed a rooting interest, and because Clint was so damn cool, he established the new mode: hero by default. The good guy was the one with the fastest gun, the meanest scowl and top billing. And that perpetual three-day beard that Toshiro Mifune had worn in the same role in Yojimbo; in Hollywood Westerns, the hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character...
...judging by the transcript, he has good reason to worry about it. Among other things, bin Laden maunders about corporations causing global warming and the Democrats failing to get the U.S. out of Iraq. Speculation is already rife that he is wearing a fake beard, since his gray of a few years ago has mysteriously disappeared. It seems he's either lost his mind or is the victim of a covert action campaign...
...retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training. Zou came out of the system with her own appalling legacy. She says the pills she was required to take made her grow a beard and develop a prominent Adam's apple and a deep voice. "My coach told me it was a nutrition booster. I trusted him," Zou says. The steroids also made her infertile. Now, she must shave every couple of days...