Word: workouts
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...years the models were often redheads (as were many 50s movie actresses), but blonds quickly came to dominate the selection (as they did Hefner?s choice of companion). The traces of baby fat in the 50s and 60s Playmates gave way to the buffed and sanded ladies of the workout era. They were usually, though not necessarily, busty, and almost always Caucasian. And always very American: the ideal of the middle-class Midwestern boy who ran the magazine. Even the German models Hefner added for spice in 1961 (Heidi Becker, Christa Speck) looked like red-white-and-blue farm girls...
...Playboy did surrender to the eroto-chemical revolution: the siliconing of women?s breasts. No longer was the Playmate a triumph of good genes, a pretty smile and a light workout. Now when you looked at a Playmate you had to think of the plastic surgeon who made her that way. Bette Midler once made a joke about Bruce Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn...
...MAC’s shortcomings are painfully apparent to everyone who has ever had the misfortune to visit. The important question is not whether the MAC is acceptable, but what can—or, rather, what will—be done to improve Harvard’s dismal workout facilities. It would be tempting to charge the new Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 with the responsibility of ensuring rapid renovations to the substandard facilities currently on offer. Gross, who has shown a commendable eagerness to dive into projects to improve the quality of undergraduate...
...theirs. Such changes will, of course, be logistically complex and financially challenging. But that is precisely what prioritizing something means. So the message to the administration is simple: Either step up and find a way, as so many other universities have done, to provide a first-rate workout facility or stop wasting everyone’s time by pretending that doing so is a priority...
...diligent daily joggers tired of their generic New Balances snagged half-off at City Sports and willing to shell out a little more for their next workout outfit comes the brilliant new Nike Nylon Cortex ID. Admit that you’re running for the gratification of your own ego anyway and take that narcissism to a whole new level—imagine a pair of sneakers emblazoned with your own name! Customers go through a three-step questionnaire on the website (beginning with “Are you male or female” to ensure the correct gender normative...