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Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water -- Vicki Valosik, Hardcover Computers - Games Stabbing at me in the"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty, '" said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers none more so than synchronized swimmers, for whom Williams is often considered godmother. In this revelatory history, Vicki Valosik