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MISS UNIVERSE Adios, avoirdupois. Venezuelan Alicia Machado breaks into sweat to regain winning form

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

The basic flaw with Taylor and Burton is that they lack any flak for feather-light comedy. They substitute double or sextuple entendre, as when Taylor says, "I feel rather scared of marriage really," looking out at the audience with the eyes of a wounded doe. What the Elyot-Amanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: King Midas Calls the Tune | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

tall and weighed 140 Ibs.; today Ms. Average is pushing 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs 143 Ibs. The average male used to be a shade more than 5 ft. 8 in. tall and weighed 166 lbs.; now he is 5 ft. 9 in. and tips the scales at 172...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Land of the Fat | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

After long seasons of Big Rhoda jokes, the star finally put her weight -and her foot-down. Viewers had long suspected that underneath the avoirdupois there was a slim beauty screaming to get out. Now she emerged funnier than ever-and too big to stay put. Thus Rhoda was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhoda and Mary -Love and Laughs | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

What with all those gourmet meals he has to tuck away in line of duty, 007 alias Sean Connery, 34, is finding avoirdupois harder to liquidate than his old pals from SMERSH. Relaxing with his real-life wife and child in Nassau, the 6-ft. 1-in. actor weighed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 1965 | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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