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...expect to get it. Power Rangers is choppy, video-game-paced fare that has the feel of a cheap Japanese monster movie, circa 1956. The premise: five teenagers (three boys and two girls) are transmogrified mid-episode into spandex-clad superheroes who battle the vile forces of Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic witch. Through a mix of kung-fu acrobatics, pummeling and pouncing, the Rangers manage to defeat whatever band of clunky, plastic robot- cretins Rita enjoins to cause trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Raters | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...year-old performer--sporting trademark black spandex pants and dreadlocks--breathes new life into Bob Marley tunes, often hopping up and down as he sings and plays his guitar...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: His Stage Is The Square | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

...Saturday nights, as many as 300 young women line the margins of E55, a Czech highway near the German border. Their costumes vary: light frocks, skimpy red dresses, glow-in-the-dark Spandex pants. They speak a babel of languages: Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German. But they have only one thing to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

Green velvet, black silk, silver spandex and tweed jackets flash as 30 men and women line up by team outside the shiny wooden dance floor...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Elias' numbers have fallen to the level of mere mortals, because of his three-carry, two-yard game against Holy Cross last week, a game he suited up for in spite of an ankle injury. Before that, Elias was already being fitted for the blue spandex suit and red cape. Check out these Superman-ly, pre-Holy Cross statistics...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes on Princeton In 'Biggest Game of the Year' | 10/24/1992 | See Source »

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