Word: spandexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time he refused her push for reconciliation, she filed abuse claims. If she was ever bruised, he says, it was from one of the several plastic surgeries she underwent to feed her vanity and draw ogles at the tony Main Line gym where she worked out almost daily, a spandex emporium for the young and the restless. He can give you the dates too, for the nose job, the eye job, the breast job, the chemical peels...
...wake up late with a sinking feeling in my stomach. The night before, my roommates Ashika and Anna helped me pull together a sufficiently skimpy outfit: a tight, ice-blue spandex camisole with an equally binding short black skirt and strappy high-heeled shoes. The combination wouldn't be so bad--if it didn't make me feel naked...
...trilogy's first ballet, "Waterbaby Bagatelles," with choreography by the ultra-innovative Twyla Tharp, ranges from hauntingly mechanical to precociously cute. A gigantic grid of flourescent lights dangling at varying angles just inches above the dancers' heads adds to the surreal, Blade Runner-esque mood onstage. No-sweat-showing spandex and stretch velvet seem to be costume designer Santo Loquasto's fabrics of choice for this production--the men don shimmery silver tank tops and billowy white pants, while the women wear either two-color fluttery gowns resembling beach cover-ups, or bathing beauty-style suits and hair kercheifs...
Julianne Moore has a few great moments as a seductive experimental artist. John Turturro is also on hand as the egocentric, purple spandex-clad bowler Jesus Quintana, quite possibly the more outrageous character he as ever played...
Other events I don't get include the luge and bobsled. Actually, I feel that way about pretty much anything involving men in spandex...