Being Big -- 'Body Shop' Author Reminisces on the Power of Muscle

Paul Solotaroff was just another scrawny college freshman in the mid-1970s when he discovered lifting weights and steroids, a period he chronicles in his new memoir, "The Body Shop: Parties, Pills and Pumping Iron -- Or My Life in the Age of Muscle." Here he reminisces on the seductive power of the bulging bicep. I happened to get big the year disco hit and turned New York into a pleine-aire ...

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