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Vicki Valosik
432 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781324096894
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Language: English
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"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athle...
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Vicki Valosik
432 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781324096894
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athle...