Flex Appeal

February, 1991

Flex AppealA Pumped-Up Portfolio Of beautiful BodybuildersIn his rippling, sinewy new novel Body, Harry Crews describes his protagonist, Sheree Dupont, as "a single shining muscle of a girl." He sees the women's bodybuilding community this way: "All around them, in the pool, in chaise longues, were...women without body fat, their skin diaphanous, their movements languid and deliberate, abdominal walls ridged with rows of muscle so sharply defined as to seem unreal, the mad imagini...