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- From: carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Weight/appearance of professional models; Re: Obesity...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.151430.6511@aoa.aoa.utc.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:14:30 GMT
- References: <1992Jul10.035136.14946@athena.cs.uga.edu> <21375@sybase.sybase.com> <1992Jul17.040104.15965@spdcc.com>
- Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates
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- In article <1992Jul17.040104.15965@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul10.035136.14946@athena.cs.uga.edu>, mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >> Concerning women who want to look like models on the fashion pages,
- >> I wish it were more generally known that these pictures are often
- >> "stretched" vertically by tilting the paper in the enlarger.
- >And for the photogenically challenged os us, there's always the rack...
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- And in the 20 July Wall St Journal, an article says (actually the
- writer says :=) ) some woman is suing Playgirl because they ran
- an ad with a photo of her that was laterally stretched, i.e. she
- looked somewhat more obese than she actually is. So it goes.
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