Word: engulfment
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Furthermore, Saint Laurent's stiff, billowing materials-though more flattering than the currently fashionable figure-revealing knit fabrics-threaten to engulf the small and puff up the large woman. The extravagant ornamentation and expensive bulk will have to be pared away by the manufacturers who will make unauthorized, mass-produced copies. But, as New York Designer Diane von Furstenberg noted, "Duplicated, it will look cheap...
...unholy trio hits the well-manicured streets of Beverly Hills, struggling to recruit the likes of Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, James Caan, Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds, the studio chief stews in his office, combatting a takeover by a notoriously ruthless conglomerate called Engulf and Devour...
...scandal may well spread and engulf others. Liz is not alone in turning talkative. Federal investigators are expected to explore reports that she and other women working on jobs over which Hays held power took part in "orgies" at a hideaway in the Capitol-assigned to Speaker Carl Albert and known as "the Board of Education" -and in suburban apartments. Various Congressmen, staff members and Capitol Hill police reportedly attended...
Blind Eye. The carriers seem to be resisting the broom-wielding administration of Eduard Shevardnadze, an austere former police chief who was made regional party boss in 1972, when private corruption threatened to engulf the entire local Communist organization. With officials turning a blind eye, profiteers had, among other things, been looting several large factories and selling their products on the black market. Capitalist-minded peasants had been loading flowers and produce aboard Aeroflot flights to Moscow, where they could be sold at large profit...
...Johnny Alee, the 1132 pound man who fell through the floor of his North Carolina log cabin one hundred years ago. Nor can he compare to El Topicon, the Brazilian wrestler who is reputed to weigh an incredible fifteen hundred pounds, who is so enormous that he can engulf a two hundred pound opponent in his rolls...