Word: bev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iron II: The Women, that Bushnell is definitively put in his place. In this semidocumentary about women body builders, one sees hormonal prodigies. The women are formidably developed. Their bikini bras look like preposterous Band-Aids attached to the nipples of a linebacker. An Australian woman in the movie, Bev Francis, has bulked herself up into a simulation of the Incredible Hulk. She clearly has the most daunting set of muscles in the Las Vegas body builders' competition that is the focus of the movie. But she loses because the judges think she looks too "masculine." Bev is not, that...
...body building demand the taut bulges of an Arnold Schwarzenegger and pump iron (lift weights) like crazy to achieve them. Pumping Iron (1977) was a deadpan docufarce that transformed Schwarzenegger from a curiosity into a celebrity. Pumping Iron II: The Women will probably not do the same for Bev Francis, the Australian Amazon who was at the controversial center of the 1983 Caesars Palace World Cup championship in Las Vegas. The body she has created for herself is, to untutored eyes, too awesome and frightening, a kind of self-imposed freak of nature. For that reason, Pumping Iron...
...Foundation fears for the future support of women's athletics. Last February the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX applies only to programs receiving federal funds, not to institutions. A bill to overturn the decision is in the Senate. One problem, explains U.S. Olympic Swim Team Man ager Bev Montrella, is "we look at female gold-medal winners with the same esteem as men. But in colleges, men's athletics is still where...
Louis Armstrong is Bev'ly Sills...
Working on the case, the FBI bugged Marcello's offices and set up a dummy insurance company in Bev erly Hills, Calif. Called Fidelity Financial Consul tants, the "firm" was run by Joseph Hauser, a convicted insurance swindler who was cooperating with the FBI in hopes of gaining early pa role. Hauser was introduced to Marcello by a Washington lobbyist named I. Irving Davidson; the Mafia don allegedly agreed to try to bribe Louisiana officials to obtain insurance contracts for Fidelity and then split the commissions with Hauser and Davidson...