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...sweating and grunting has redefined the cultural parameters of female attractiveness -- away from soft curves toward a more athletic body. For proof, just compare pop icon Madonna to her prototype, Marilyn Monroe. On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna flashed chiseled biceps and deltoids, so impressing one Los Angeles critic that he wrote that instead of the customary audience call for "Author! Author!" the cry from Madonna's fans should be "Fitness trainer! Fitness trainer!" Tennis ace Martina Navratilova also notes the changing standards. When the Czechoslovak-born athlete defected to the U.S. in 1975, she was so embarrassed...
YESTERDAY, I watched Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video. Thirty-six times...
Layton tells the story of being browbeaten by a radio talk show host this summer. The host--who, no doubt, would make an excellent subject of critical inquiry--criticized her for teaching Madonna at Harvard when an alarming number of high school students across the country can't even read and write...
...articles stored up by both its parents. In looks the merger retains more of M, but, as the first issue's cover signals, the sensibility is pure Manhattan, inc. It proclaims POWER BROKERS in letters 1 1/2 in. high and names 11 of them (10 men and Madonna). Inside is an almost nonstop stream of gossip, scuttlebutt and awestruck praise about the rich and famous, including 65 miniprofiles of such figures as financier Michael-David Weil and Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz. The prose is burnished, but not much of the dish is fresh, save for two first-rate pieces...
...Sacred and Profane Love, the Naples portrait of Pope Paul III and his two grandsons (surely the most piercing political image in Western art, until Goya's portrait of the family of Charles IV). And then there are the masterpieces that remain in Venice, such as the Pesaro Madonna in the Frari...