Word: leotards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Premier Raymond Barre in the first round of voting in April, found itself torn by new rivalries for the leadership and cowed by the tacit threat of a parliamentary election. Consequently, the U.D.F. was wrangling over what position it should take toward the new government. Outgoing Culture Minister Francois Leotard flatly criticized it, though he refrained from recommending a censure vote. Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing spoke benignly of a "constructive opposition." Outgoing Transport Minister Pierre Mehaignerie and former European Parliament President Simone Veil hinted at possible support for a Socialist government in the future if its policies prove...
...such gorgeous women in your videotapes?" she asked. "Can't you find any that ordinary people could identify with? I tried the stretches in your first tape and couldn't do them; I'd break in half. You should take a look at underwear. I can't find a leotard to run in with a good built...
...owned television network, TF1. If the National Assembly approves, France will become the first European country to privatize a public TV network. The measure, charged Communist Senator Charles Lederman, is "the same as if we auctioned off Versailles, the Louvre and the Comedie Francaise." Culture and Communications Minister Francois Leotard vehemently disagreed. "TF1 is badly run," he said. "It does not compete with foreign programs and is absolutely incapable of exporting its own productions...