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Women can move proudly into the security of then-new bodies ? they can jog into shape, lift weights for body tone, wear themselves out in the disco bliss of Jazzercise. But what about men? "Jazzercise is a blowout," one Atlanta woman says. "Remember the first dances you went to, where all the girls ended up dancing with other girls because the boys couldn't dance? So this gives me a chance to dance, which my husband hasn't done since our wedding. But my husband still won't dance. Come to think of it, I'm back to dancing...
...When Olivia Newton-John sold millions of records purring, "Let's get physical," she wasn't talking only about pushups. A woman who is more aware of her physicality will probably be more aware of her sexuality. The inspiration of the fitness gurus was to set exercise to the disco beat and make the regimen fun; sex is, after all, a form of exercise for two. Says Helen Gurley Brown, who, as editor of Cosmopolitan, is paid to think about Topic A: "Women are becoming real sexual athletes now. Health gives women stamina that allows them to give full range...
...argued that the strong woman is only this summer's fashion, like Deely Bobbers and E.T., and that most women will soon tire of sweating themselves into fight ing shape. The disco beat at the local health club may begin to sound as monotonous as the old metronome; muscular aerobicians will resent being mistaken for football players; Jane Fonda will find herself another cause and let her deltoids go to flab. Throughout history, women have been alternately starved and stuffed, and no one can guarantee that next year's body heroine won't be Dolly Parton. But to imagine this...
BORN. To Donna Summer, 33, sultry queen of disco, and Bruce Sudano, 33, songwriter (he co-wrote Summer's Bad Girls and Dolly Parton's Starting Over): their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda. Weight...
...that end, the Elysées offers six restaurants and ten bars, a disco, a nightclub, a businessman's service center with stock exchange quotes and multilingual secretaries, a fitness club, a swimming pool with "beach club," even a corner for bridge players. There are no Gideon Bibles in the rooms. Instead, to "Parisianize" foreigners, Hatt plans to provide French classics. On the walls hang framed pens...