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...standard bikini has not been neglected. The Italian version below by Anna Club is done up in gold lame, guaranteed to cast a glow even on overcast days. Next to it is Fiorucci's red string bikini, which has attractions of its own. But the new maillots (French for both baby clothes and bathing suits) are something else. Ashore, these clinging one-piece numbers are pinafore-demure. Wetted, they become second skins, as close to the body as sun tan oil. They are also practical. Halston says of his hot-pink strapless model on the next page: "It gives...
...pink: Norma Kamali's shirred-front, low-cut version in red Spandex. Maillots are less substantial than they seem. Says Tilley: "I wanted to see how little it took to hold the maillot together. It took a mere half-inch of thread-about as much as a string bikini." The jade model worn by Cheryl weighs 3 oz. "The maillot reveals the best and conceals the worst," says Halston. "It's sexier than an unruly curve." Many curves will be covered this summer but more visible than ever. Pace Mies van der Rohe, more is less...
MOST SCENES SHOW the bodybuilders working out or competing. Schwarzenegger lifts with the boys at Joe's Gym in California and Ferrigno lifts at a less elaborate club in Brooklyn. A few obligatory scenes of Schwarzenegger posing for advertisements with bikini-clad models, riding horses and posing on mountaintops, sans shirt, and Ferrigno eating dinner with his family alleviate the monotony of the bodybuilding process...
...movie about bodybuilding? You've got to be kidding. All those grotesques walking around in bikini briefs, narcisstically flexing those grossly overdeveloped muscles. Disgusting? Besides, they're all gay, aren't they? If the general public thinks about bodybuilding at all, it is likely to be in such derisive terms. So besides indifference to the documentary form, Pumping Iron must also overcome smug prejudice about its subject manner as well...
...Kate makes me feel like Kissinger negotiating between the Israelis and the Arabs. She ain't easy." Says a crewman: "She's got to be clever to make an impact on the screen. All Farrah has to do is smile; Jackie can just walk by in a bikini. Kate has to get to the audience by strength of personality-a much harder role...