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...number of things, besides the special sauce, were eating at my insides. After a couple of concerts, a video with Michael Jackson, and the controversy over authentic versus artificial sweat-shirts, the millions of dollars ostensibly raised by USA for Africa for the benefit of the starving Ethiopians weren't reaching their intended recipients. This bothered...
...1970s joggers were everywhere, all seemingly in training for the marathon. Other citizens, plunging into alternate activities, were equally fervid. Swimmers boasted of laps completed, cyclists of long-distance touring, and weight lifters of pounds pressed. Today Americans live in a land where fit is proper. Strut your sweat. The majority, who remain woefully unfit, are now the ones who feel out of step; shamefacedly, they even outfit the body as if they exercised it. Togged out in sneaks and sweats, they proclaim their affiliation, in spirit if not in the flesh, with the fitness generation. The prototype runners below...
MAYBE YOU'RE thinking that your activity was included if it was athletic. Probably. But, that doesn't mean your personal blood and sweat were honored...
Welcome to the U.S. spa, 1980s style. Only a decade ago, the spa's hallmark was pampering and passivity. Fat farms, so they were called, catered to well- fed, well-spread Mrs. Plushbottoms. No longer. Most of today's spas are one- stop fitness shops, sweat-soaked emporiums where guests are run ragged during the day, fed near starvation rations at lunch and dinner, and then hectored on proper nutrition, stress reduction and healthy habits. Coddling facials, pedicures and massages serve as soothing, but temporary respites. "If you want to expose yourself to new things in health and fitness, diet...
Welcome to the '80s, the retro Time Warp that tosses all previous decades in a Cuisinart and purees them into The Latest Thing. We are the '30s gone hip, the '40s with leaner muscles, the '50s in Reeboks, the '60s with no sweat. And if movies are the gilded reflection of American popular culture, then a half-century of movies about teenagers traces a curious evolution of the adolescent spirit. The Andy Hardy series gave us romance without passion. The James Dean movies of the '50s offered passion without pleasure. In the "beach-party" pictures of the early '60s, teenagers...