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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: what is attractive ?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:33:56 GMT
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- In article <ewright.728074350@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >>Nowadays, it's the well-to-do who have time to exercise and get even tans,
- >>and the lean, muscular, tan body is in.
-
- >I can't entirely agree with that. People who dig ditches for a
- >living *still* get plenty of exercise and (unless they are smart
- >enough to use sunblock) tans.
-
- But they get the tres gauche working man's tan, which just doesn't cut it
- on the chic beaches of Malibu ... those white legs! That peeling sunburn!
- The funny sleeve lines! Whatever would George Hamilton say?
-
- Tan lines tell *all*, darling.
-
- Oh, and as for exercise -- well, digging ditches will *never* create the
- truly sculpted body of one who has hours to devote to pumping just that
- *particular* muscle group into perfect symmetry with the others. Fabio,
- my dear, couldn't dig his way out of a sandbox. It would destroy the
- balance, the form, the piece d'arte he has wasted -- er, *devoted* so
- much of his life to create.
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- I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have
- had a difficult time. -- Former Vice-President Danforth Quayle
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