Word: leotarded
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...fright. Dogged by a history of erratic performances, she could be her own worst enemy if she suffers a small slip early in the competition and loses her concentration. Behind the scenes, Onodi's precompetition jitters can be comical. "Henni always forgets something," says teammate Ildiko Balog, "like her leotard or her competition number." But if she stays calm and summons some hey-look-at-me showmanship, she could hit gold. At 4 ft. 10 in., her lithe, well-proportioned frame creates the illusion of greater height, and her floor routine, set to West Side Story, offers a grace...
...crowd seemed to enjoy the show, as they laughed at segments such as a re-enactment of the lyrics to "Uptown Girl" and the entry of male models in black leotard who performed pelvic thrusts to the song "I'm Too Sexy...
...Queen may be the Prince's fantasy; she mostly ignores him and certainly does not need him to enact her own doomed fate. Guillem holds the stage with mesmeric authority. No romance for her, Tchaikovsky notwithstanding. Guillem is a modern heroine who could perform the role persuasively in a leotard. In fact, theater artist Robert Wilson is only semispoofing when he talks of a Swan Lake in which she would play all the roles. She could too, right down to the tipsy tutor...
...over an array of shiny chrome and black exercise machines, a few big brawny biceps and rippling tummy muscles flash across the screen, and the sound of clanging metal plates in the background is punctuated by not a few ominous grunts and groans. Dressed in some space-age lace leotard, Cher, lying in a sexy position on an exercise machine, comes into full view and tells you, "Face it, if a good body came in a bottle, everyone would have...
Come the Summer Games, as sure as there will be botched routines and disputed scores, it is a fair bet that an agile sprite in a colorful leotard will emerge as a sweetheart of Seoul. For reasons as difficult to identify as the gradations of excellence that turn silver to gold, sports fans quadrennially bestow their affection on an elfin gymnast. Perhaps it is the daunting mix of skills: the daring speed and height of the vault, the elegance and precision of the balance beam, the strength and fluidity of the uneven parallel bars, the showmanship and gravity subversion...