Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ward, is a nightmarish splice of bad Richard Strauss and the sound track from the scenic sections of a True Life Adventure Film. The product of too much emotion music form Grade B movies, Ward's chords smother in their instumescence. When Ward does shear off the blathering orchestral fat, the musical thought that remains strikes out as absolutely insipid. Three hours of such stuff is three hours too much...
...premised on the axiom that people need taboo subjects. In the Faroe Islands, for example, where lovemaking is as casual as conversation, sleazy natives sidle up to strangers on street corners and try to sell them pictures of food. A piece of corned beef with just a little fat on it is considered very provocative. A girl is asked if she would like a little cream cheese with her bagels and she says: "I don't do that sort of thing...
...enthusiasm was based on more than fond hopes. January's auto sales totaled 543,601, a 12% increase over January 1962, and a record for any January. The biggest sales rise was made by Chrysler, which is recuperating vigorously under the cost-cutting, fat-trimming prescription of President Lynn Townsend. Chrysler took 11.8% of the market in January, almost 2% better than its showing last year. General Motors, as usual, had the biggest share (55.6%), and its Chevrolet, Pontiac and Cadillac divisions all made records...
...wife. A jeweler in the wedding party steps forward with a diamond tiara. "Father,"' the groom says piously, "I have brought a little gift to the Virgin." The priest accepts it gratefully: "How good of you, my son." The jeweler walks briskly out of the church, clutching a fat check from the groom and confident that, even if it bounces, the priest will honorably render unto Caesar. But the instant he is out of sight, the "priest" grabs the "bride," the "groom" grabs the diamonds, and they all make tracks for the nearest fence...
...yearly consideration of "a fat wether, a fat hog, or 40 shillings in money," the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in its assembly of 1633 granted to Samuel Maverick a plot of land which had come to be known as Noddle's Island...