The Paradoxes of Feminine Muscle
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- In 1991, President George H
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- Bush posed with two bodybuilders on the South Lawn of the White House
- The eighties, embracing excess, loosened Americans’ suspicion of flagrant muscle
- Women, it was said, wanted not muscle but “tone,” which was thought to be achieved through “fat-melting” repetitions
The photo op is an emblem of a discarded time. Taken in 1991, during the second annual Great American Workout, a fitness event hosted on the South Lawn of the White House, it shows President George H [+9962 chars]
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