Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flailing dead turkeys is fun, and obviously it is profitable. But it takes precious little skill, and at this point accomplishes nothing in a positive direction. The image of Liebling sitting in his fat, stuffed armchair and laughing his head off at some of the articles he comes across hardly fills one with admiration...
...office door ajar (to "see who goes to the bathroom"), first-names his protocol-conscious associates. One of Garrels' big problems will be matching last year's record turnover of $60 million in the face of government belt tightening. Garrels feels that the British economy "lacks fat." Says he: "Whenever it gets rolling, the government steps in to control it. It's just like pushing a pendulum at the wrong time...
...film's first scene, the teen-aged hero (Warren Beatty) and heroine (Natalie Wood), a couple of nice kids from Kazansas, are shown in cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even fat old slob of a mother (Audrey Christie), a living list of everything lousy that has ever been said about womanhood, reads her daughter a puritan's primer of sexual misconceptions: "Boys don't respect a girl they can go all the way with. Anyway, no nice girl has those...
...congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic show where a young woman was really sawed in half. "I said: 'Well, what's the explanation?' Flora Massingham said: 'there isn't any explanation. He just saws them...
...Crimson was fat and sassy, and the 70th anniversary was an occasion of unstinted self-congratulation. The president of the United States took time out to write; "As an old CRIMSON man...I am sure that I voice the sentiments of all of that company of happy men when I say that none of them would exchange his Crimson training for any other experience or association of his college days...