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• n  an elastic synthetic fabric

• The new antispace suit is made of a skintight, elastic nylon-and-spandex combination, light enough to allow astronauts to walk, run or even scale mountainsjust the thing as .
• Two dozen students in spandex outfits, most of them women, settle onto purple and blue mats to begin the class with ujjayi, a breathing exercise.
• Codepink, an anti-war group organized by women, had its activists, some clad with pink spandex, capes and masks, lined up in front of the entrance, chanting slogans about .

News & Articles

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• Hooking The Red Hook: Brooklyn Gets its Own Cape-less Crusader
  Dean Haspiel. (Flickr) Brooklyn finally has its own superhero—and he’s got a mean right hook. Comic book artist Dean Haspiel has created “ a hero for hipsters ” with The Red Hook, a retro superhero with a checkered past and a spandex suit the color of a fire truck (and no cape, actually). The Red Hook comes from inauspicious beginnings as a thief who roves his eponymous neighborhood, and even ...
  June 17, 2013 - The New York Observer
• Hooking The Red Hook: Brooklyn Gets its Own Caped Crusader
  Dean Haspiel. (Flickr) Brooklyn finally has its own superhero and he’s got a mean right hook. Comic book artist Dean Haspiel has created “ a hero for hipsters ” with The Red Hook, a retro superhero with a checkered past and a spandex suit the color of a fire truck (and no cape, actually). The Red Hook comes from inauspicious beginnings as a thief who roves his eponymous neighborhood, and even ...
  June 17, 2013 - The New York Observer
• Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con flying high in first year
  It's not Halloween, but capes and spandex are on parade at the South Point Hotel and Casino.
  June 15, 2013 - FOX 5 Las Vegas

Quotes

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• Pierce Brosnan in Reuters
  Once I started singing I kind of rather enjoyed it,Brosnan, better known for James Bond films than musicals, said. "The Spandex was a bit of a challenge and the boots were. But I had the time of my life making this movie."
• Meryl Streep in Arizona Republic
  Wearing those overalls for four months was a bit of trial, and the platform shoes and the spandex jumpsuit that took seven men to get me into - that was painful,Streep says per the British gossipteers at BANG Showbiz. "But it was fun to...
• Rosie O Donnell in msnbc.com
  Never in a million years,O'Donnell said. "But 'Dance Your Ass Off,' call me for the celebrity edition. As long as I don't have to wear spandex, 'cause I'm not into that."