Word: mclish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the fitness craze is still mostly a middle-and upper-middle-class phenomenon, the fit look has nothing elitist about it. It represents an attainable ideal for all ages, races, walks of life. It requires little more than the will to work at them. Argues Body Builder Rachel McLish: "You have a simple choice of what to put on your bones: fat or muscle. Working out is a positive addiction." It may also be the means to that elusive, seductive goal: a prolonged, vital youth. "The fitness business," suggests Novelist-Critic Wilfrid Sheed, "is about sex and immortality...
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