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...graduate of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Meier did some painting during his early years, turning out large abstract-expressionist canvases. Nowadays he assembles intricate collages ("my workout"), and his architectural drawings are collectors' items. He also cuts an impressive figure in person. With his dark-rimmed glasses and conservative suits, offset by a flowing white mane, he looks as though he had designed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Taking On an Imperial Task | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...knock-around wear, jeans are in a very stiff competition with muscle-tone fantasy and military madness. The pipestem ideal has been phased out by the beefy silhouette best paraded in a bevy of unisex exercise duds, from tank tops and crotch-clutching shorts to billowing workout pants and pastel sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Beyond the Blues Horizon | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Though he was raised in New Jersey, Carl Lewis' inner thermostat always registers cool. Lewis loves to run and jump when it is hot. The hotter it is, the better he feels. On this humid Tuesday afternoon, as Lewis prepares for his final workout, the stands at the Santa Monica track are empty save for the security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Carl Lewis: Man in the Eye of a Media Hurricane | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Anyone who has watched him train knows that the world's fastest human does everything slowly except run. He is slow to start his workout. His warmup is usually a slow jog once around the track. He spends a lot of time talking and walking, slowly. Lewis grabs the tape measure and stretches it 171 ft. along the track, the distance of his approach for the long jump. This is the first activity of most workouts. But Lewis does not normally jump in practice; he merely runs through the paces of his approach. This final workout lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Carl Lewis: Man in the Eye of a Media Hurricane | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...three frankfurters) and former U.S. Olympic Hockey Captain Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with the Olympians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Made-for-TV Extravaganza | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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