Word: spandexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Everywhere he goes, Colin Powell is besieged. Bicycle messengers in spandex tights stop him on the streets of Washington and urge him to run for President. Waiters at restaurants advise the retired general to aim for the White House. ceos quietly pledge money should Powell decide to run. Political operatives of both parties would like to ignore Powell-but can't. "I don't think about it a lot," claims a senior White House official, before admitting, "If Powell does run, he will be a significant player." Another in the White House is more fatalistic: "If he runs...
...caught these guys in Justice [Moral Reasoning 22]," said Wayne G. Marshall '98. "One was wearing a tight pink tank top with leopard print and spandex, and the other one was wearing a tank...
...Everyone knows they look nice in a navy jacket, and everyone has one," explained former contender Sam Ferrell '95. "So we all decided to leave the Spandex at home...