Word: spandex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other cultural norms are turned on their heads under the category of "Superheroes," where visitors discover that, although the spandex-wearing ubermensches (and uberfraus) may be all the rage in the United States, in Europe they are used mostly for satirical purposes. Only in England does the serious superhero thrive, in incarnations like "Judge Dredd," found in the pages of adult comic weeklies like 2000 A.D. or Warriors. French and Belgian takes on the superhero yield either goofy results, like "Superdupont" by Gotlib and Jacques Lob, or satiric ones, as in the Italian "Ranxerox," a buffed-up, tank-top wearing...
...impact-loading exercise, jogging puts maximum pressure on the knee, especially once it has been weakened by a major tendon tear. TIME Daily's prescription for fitness: ride a bike. It wi ll provide the same aerobic value while putting no damaging stress on that weakened knee -- and the spandex clothes are cool...
...cranky and old as it turns up in car commercials, movie sound tracks and award shows--not a good thing for a form supposedly powered by energy and youth and anger. The music started out as an antidote to the processed pop of the '80s; instead of sex and spandex, alternative rock was supposed to be about passion and honesty, about taking the focus off performers' gluteal muscles and putting it back on the music...
Could this remark have been made? Could a flight attendant, bending close to deposit a piece of spandex chicken on the tray of a nearby traveler, have overheard? Could she have passed the word along to her superiors? Could this have been used by the airline barons as an excuse for airlines to haul people from Philadelphia to Boston without a morsel...
...expressed they are. With four sets of couples swirling and writhing in neon-colored Spandex bodysuits to thoroughly unconventional ballet music, excessive subtlety is never a problem. The blatant eroticism sparkling on stage may make the more conservative ballet-goers shift uncomfortably in their seats, but the strength and expressiveness of the dancers is unarguably remarkable. Some of the more enjoyable pieces are the ones that explore the differences between the friendships of men and those of women. Yet one of the most glorious dances in the entire ballet has to be the final number, in which the couples simultaneously...