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...health for their looks. About 70% of teenage girls diet, and surveys show that even fourth-graders are worrying about flabby thighs. Dr. John Brunzell, a medical professor at the University of Washington, blames magazines and TV for encouraging teenage girls to be slender and teenage boys to be muscular. "This popularized image is out of touch with reality," he says...
...exercise in moral philosophy and sociological big-think is a modest and, at its most basic level, very enjoyable little movie called Thelma & Louise, which is so far a moderate commercial success. It has earned about $20 million in its first 3 1/2 weeks of release -- less than a muscular big-boy movie like Robin Hood or Terminator 2: Judgment Day could expect to make on its first weekend...
...race -- it expects to introduce its new OS/2 by year-end -- but that doesn't mean it will prevail. Microsoft is attracting a dedicated following to its successful Windows software, which lets users juggle a variety of programs at once. While Windows is not as muscular as OS/2, Gates sees it as a bridge leading customers from DOS to OS/2 in a smooth transition. He thinks that is important: "Switching overnight to OS/2 is too great a leap," he says...
...example, Kelley quotes at length Shirley Watkins -- identified as "one of Mrs. Reagan's secretaries" -- describing the cynical way in which Nancy Reagan and her advisers tried to mold her public image. When it was suggested that Mrs. Reagan meet with a little boy dying of muscular dystrophy, Watkins recalls that a top aide replied, "Absolutely not. The First Lady doesn't want her picture taken with some drooly kid on a respirator. It's too disgusting...
Still, Cannon refuses to join the now fashionable club of Reagan bashers. Why? Because the country needed the muscular optimism Reagan brought to the White House and, after a siege of presidential paralysis, Reagan showed that innovation at the top was still possible...