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Salon looks at the meaning of the latest Nike ads: Thigh the beloved country

The big-shouldered woman talks about how swimming has made her broad, but that she likes her shoulders anyway: "Who knows," she says, "one day maybe I'll fall in love with a bad swimmer and he'll be flailing around in the deep end calling my name and I'll swim over and I'll save him and I'll fling his wet body over my shoulders and I'll carry him home to bed." She pauses. "I've said too much."