Re: RARA-AVIS: Changing standards for muscularity

From: David Wright ( dwright333@yahoo.com)
Date: 26 Mar 2008


..and not half bad:

( http://research.amnh.org/users/siddall/IMAGES/bogart.gif)

...though no Mitchum, who (together w/ Lancaster) seems to have been the ideal of barrel-chested mid-century virility, and who loses his shirt quite a few movies. Both impressive physiques, but not hyper-pneumatically so in the spirit of the current Rambo standard (really just a male equivalent of the silicone jungle), cartoonish enough to make Steve Reeves and Jayne Mansfield appear semi-normal.

David Wright
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