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...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...
Your choice of body type for your cover photograph perpetuates the message that svelte sells. That slim, shapely body needs no Redux. My challenge: exhibit a "before" body, not an "after" one. And it should not be one held in by spandex or waiting to exhale. Make a statement. Be bold. Sacrifice the visually attractive for the normal, average, real. Were you afraid that a before shot might impact your newsstand sales "figures"? CAROL SIMONSON San Diego...
...popular trouser cloth of the mid-19th century. Tom Collins (Colline in the opera) follows Puccini in that the young man has a coat he loves, although it is a Tommy Hilfiger-style jacket. Today's Mimi looks nothing like Puccini's seamstress. She wears tight, shimmering spandex pants with a new holographic material annealed to the surface. Mimi literally glows, and this is the look Bloomingdale's is capitalizing on. As the season progresses, more Rent boutiques will open around the country...