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...Today, Namsan's 1,000-odd steps are as frequented by Spandex-clad runners as by lapdog-toting ajumas, older Korean women, and retired gentlemen with their newspapers. From the summit of Namsan the megalopolis of Seoul sprawls before you. The historic part of town, with its complex of royal palaces, lies at the mountain's base just to the north, while to the south the Han River glitters on its way to the port of Incheon and the Yellow Sea. And just below, nestled in a sea of greenery, is a reminder of South Korea's unenviable honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...garage-rock movement continues to slather its greasy mixture of hipster apathy and commercial aspiration all over mainstream radio and magazine covers, another movement is bubbling just below a neon Spandex surface. It has finally arrived, with refreshing intelligence and flair, in the form of OK Go. The Chicago-based group’s eponymous disc meshes its tweaked guitars with rebel yells, resulting in one of the year’s best debuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...every movie can have a scene in which Dunst's pink shirt gets soaked in the rain before she makes out with a guy in spandex headgear, but many will try to work it into the plot somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blockbuster Summer: Biggest Summer | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...idea of taking a picture of some random woman’s butt saran-wrapped in pink spandex and labeling it a “don’t” on a page called “panty lines and huge wedgies” is a bit mean. But the person in the wrong is spared total shame because of those little Zorro-like, sunglasses-sized black bars that go across her eyes...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dos and Don'ts | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...from a desolate Army-brat childhood in Germany. When he couldn't get dope he would sniff glue. He would do anything, take any kind of drug. I remember seeing him on St. Mark's Place after he left the band, hair short and spiky, in skintight Spandex pants that looked left over from some mall scene of years before. He was thin, "on the heroin diet" as we used to say. Somehow he survived, fought off the dope, wrote a book about it: "Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pal Joey | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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