Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale sunlight ignites the Montagnes Noires. But tucked away in the bleakness of Brittany is a village that doesn't quite fit. Gourin (pop. 3,000) is fat, smart and happy...
...audience chuckled knowingly. But this is exactly the paradox that the movie points out. The American public does not know. Thousands of Chinese are starving in the American papers, and peasant morale is ebbing, but Greene's presentation stresses the zeal and vitality of the Chinese people and their fat babies. He says that he was free to photograph what he wished and often traveled alone. He politely notes that the Chinese censored nothing--the film was developed in England. Who am I to believe...
...Fat, flabby, 45-year-old Farouk symbolized the gross results of a classically misspent life. Last week he died as he had lived - gorging himself on fine food with a willowy blonde at his side. The end came in Rome's Ile de France restaurant on the ancient Aurelian Way near Vatican City. Accompanied by blonde Anna Maria Gatti, 28, Farouk dined at midnight on oysters, roast lamb, cake and fruit. At 1:30 in the morning, as he enjoyed a postprandial cigar, Farouk said he felt faint, clutched at his throat and fell forward on the table...
Next, Reid put a crimp in a favorite military pastime: smuggling in goods for resale at a fat profit. Quietly and firmly, he saw to it that all returning planes and navy vessels were searched for contraband...
...Bugs. He is not the only addict with unaddled grey matter. Near Georgia Tech, a drive-in-eatery caled The Varsity draws the most viewers with its four tube rooms equipped with desk-armed chairs to encourage eating. And the type The Varsity mostly draws? "It's the fat boy who's a real brain; he's there all the time," says one senior. Of course, as a University of Minnesotan sniffs, TV is also "for the 'C-C-ers' and down. The rest are too busy with the books to be socked down before...