Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muscles seem to be oddly evident in the national fantasy now. Children play with "action figures" like He-Man, the great-muscled master of Castle Greyskull, who does battle with Skeletor, Beastman and the other forces of evil. Ronald Reagan pumps iron for half an hour every day -- and also thinks about "the evil empire." The workouts have, he reports, added 1 3/4 in. of muscle to his chest...
...muscles. Women were soft, or at least they were very differently muscled. Bushnell's distinction survives, more or less, in a new movie called Perfect. The actress Jamie Lee Curtis plays a sleekly made aerobics instructor described by the movie's title. It is in another movie, Pumping 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...
...epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from the American documentary Pumping Iron...
...rubric of modernism -- or of a certain kind of modernism -- for the best part of half a century, since the Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the Dadaist Hugo Ball exhorted the young to burn their museums for the sake of the new age to come. And they led, on iron rails, to the museum itself...
...female body building if not a parody of the male body too? Instead of aspiring to Daisy Mae curves, and turning to cotton or cosmetic surgery to fulfill the image, women on the cutting edge of 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...