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  • In the past she has worked with artists such as Charles Atlas, Nairy Baghramian, Spartacus Chetwynd, Enrico David, Donald Urquhart and Cathy Wilkes.

    Q&A with Frieze Curator Sarah McCrory 2010

  • So, except for a brief relationship with that boy who kept getting sand kicked in his face in Charles Atlas ads, I was never allowed to go out on dates until the start of the Second World War.

    I, Betty Crocker Paul Steven Stone 2012

  • Ads in the comic books showed how a 97-pound 7 stone weakling had sand kicked in his face by a bully until he sent off for the Charles Atlas books, turned himself into a body-builder, returned to beat up the bully and won back his girl.

    David Cameron makes the U-turn a sign of macho strength | Simon Hoggart 2011

  • The story is largely what you'd imagine from the trailer: wimpy 1940s do-gooder undergoes a fast-track Charles Atlas course, then socks it to the evil über-Nazis.

    This week's new films 2011

  • The finished work – a fusion of dance, sound, video, art and light – premieres this week, with non-dancers among the cast and featuring contributions from film artist Charles Atlas as well as Clark's longtime costume designer Stevie Stewart.

    This week's new dance 2011

  • The finished work – a fusion of dance, sound, video, art and light – premieres this week, with non-dancers among the cast and featuring contributions from film artist Charles Atlas as well as Clark's longtime costume designer Stevie Stewart.

    This week's new dance 2011

  • The 1989 documentary "Put Blood in the Music," from Charles Atlas, is a quirky, talking-headsy survey of the era's wistfully regarded downtown music scene, when disco, noise, hip-hop and free jazz collided.

    Making Beautiful Music With Film Steve Dollar 2011

  • The inaugural screening is of this 1977 film by Charles Atlas , which captures a performance of Merce Cunningham 's brutally challenging dance work, "Torse."

    Histories and Mysteries Steve Dollar 2012

  • One premiere to look for is "Check Your Body at the Door," a collaborative effort by Sally Sommer , Charles Atlas and Michael Schwartz that looks back at three decades of urban dance, particularly the underground evolution of the house dance scene.

    Storied Moves and Moving Stories Steve Dollar 2012

  • Both times he reached first, Diz flexed his muscles at Gomez, pantomiming a Charles Atlas bit to irk the Yankees.

    Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

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