Word: looks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the decades, fashion has been one of the gym's greatest attractions. Olivia Newton John started the fitness-look craze with her music video "Let's Get Physical" and the '80s flick "Flashdance" fed fuel to the fashion fire. While leg warmers and plastic pants rarely serve any functional purpose today, these antiquated workout staples have been replaced by a new type of Southern California gym couture--namely peroxide-tinted hair, G-string leotards and plastic breasts and pectoral muscles. I find the exponentially enlarged chests most fascinating about the gym, but amazingly enough, taut lycra seems...
...look at ourselves and take a look in the mirror and find out where it is because we can't keep doing this," Moore said. "I think we'll have to sit down as a team and talk about it and hopefully be ready to go next weekend...
...Look at two Bill Bradley ads, and you can see his entire campaign in microcosm. In one, Bradley sits at a desk, surrounded by a flag, framed photos, an Oval Office-style window in the background. "Wouldn't it be better if we had more than sound bites and photo ops when we were choosing a candidate?" he asks. "I think so. That's why my campaign will try to be different. It'll concentrate on issues, ones that concern you." There's not a single word of substance in the ad. Instead, Bradley is talking about talking about issues...
...also deflation over not having anything left to look forward to other than the Presidents' Day mattress sale. We get only one year with triple zeroes. What are we going to do for an encore? Have ourselves cryogenically frozen for the next...
...asserting independence from it. While teenagers use pierced tongues and the like to set themselves apart, some in their 20s and 30s have latched on to the "neotribal" look, an amalgam of facial tattoos, piercings and "native" hairdos, and jewelry that borrows from cultures from the South Pacific to the Amazon. Much of this serves the same countercultural function that long hair did in the '60s, observes Rufus Camphausen, an author based in the Netherlands who has written extensively on tribal customs. Says he: "These symbols are a way of saying, 'I don't belong to the supermarket society...