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Joe Walsh predated that article by, what, 27 years or so when he sang I.L.B.T. Reubens did it," too. Maybe this modern thing for skinny chicks is a possible sign of a post-Darwinian era in aesthetics. Maybe the abstractionist movement is another. Once the survival aesthetic has passed - landscapes that depict a propitious environment and the depiction of potentially fertile mates - we can begin to ""evolve"" to new aesthetics. Perhaps we can invent Maslow's Pyramid of Aesthetics!