Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fat Texas Democratic organization was feuding and fussing. When it came time to fill Lyndon Johnson's old Senate seat in last week's special election, the conservative wing was snarling at the pro-Kennedy wing, and the main campaign argument of Democratic Candidate William Blakley, 62, was that he had consistently voted against New Frontier legislation since he went to Washington in January as an interim appointee...
...astonished by the suggestion that the cadres might use their authority to supplement thair rations illegally. 'They live as we live ..." This time, in sharp contrast, not a single refugee, whether from town or country, failed to charge the cadres with habitual pilfering." Communist cadres were the only fat Chinese nowadays, several Hong Kong refugees told him bitterly...
...comeback it was not Sunset Boulevard. But when Eddie sang People Will Say We're in Love and So Far, the Rodgers and Hammerstein schmalz was chicken fat of the highest quality. He threw Yiddish words into the German version of Mack the Knife and kept a straight face while delivering Never on Sunday in Greek (Spyros Skouras had sent a telegram spelling out the lyrics...
...impersonate Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery during a "secret tour" of North Africa-to convince the Germans that an Allied invasion would be launched from that area. Danny starts out as a U.S. private lent to the British army "to show them how to open Spam." Being on a fat-free, salt-free, low-calorie, highprotein, low-cholesterol diet, Danny skips meals, and passes the time impersonating "Satchmo," Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Intelligence catches his act, notes a resemblance to General Lawrence MacKenzie-Smith (played by-well, who else?), gets him the assignment of impersonating the general, who soon becomes...
BRATTLE: The Bogey festival continues apace. The Maltese Falcon, the current offering, is one of the very best of all. Dashiell Hammett's story has become the vehicle for Bogart's now immortal Sam Spade and Sidney Green-street's now equally immortal Fat Man. Ward Bond and Alicia Cook (and, of course, Peter Lorre). Evenings...