Word: fat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are recollections of adolescence: scatological pranks in a schoolroom, masturbation contests in a car, an encounter with a fat, aging woman with enormous breasts. There are asides (Titta's grandfather lost in the fog and thinking himself dead), bits of local color (practically the whole town moving out of the harbor in small boats to cheer a new ocean liner). Under all, there is a steady stream of events that do not change: a family death, a wedding...
Most previous attempts to rid statute books of these sacred cows have got nowhere. The special interests, confesses a White House economic aide, "come at you with hammers and knives" - as well as fat campaign contributions - and it is hard to arouse the public's interest. Most of the economists favored a package approach, in effect putting all the bad eggs into one basket that Congress would be asked to throw out. Unfortunately, they did not altogether win their point. The Ford Administration is likely to recommend repeal of some of the special-interest legislation, but it is unlikely...
Bill Cosby? Dick Gregory? Or maybe Richard Pryor in one of his less savage moments? Wrong, wrong, wrong. It is ghetto humor all right, but it comes from a different part of town-the streets of the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a fat kid named Freddie Prinze lived for most of his 20 short years. Nowadays Freddie works another barrio. As the wisecracking Chicano hustler in the decrepit East Los Angeles garage in NBC's smash new series Chico and the Man, Prinze is the hottest new property on prime-time...
Chomping a fat cigar and wearing an authentic-looking paunch, Actor Richard Burton has been rehearsing for his Hallmark Hall of Fame role as Sir Winston Churchill, which will be televised in November. A devoted Churchill fan, Burton owns a pair of Winnie's cuff links and has a framed telegram from him on his wall. In the past year alone, he has read a score of books and articles on his idol. Burton's assessment: "He was the best actor of our times -playing himself, of course...
...documentary series examined the entertainment side of TV-what most viewers watch most of the time. While Closeup did not raise any startling new criticism, it did give its prime time, national audience an informative look at how network executives search out the lowest common denominator to keep ratings fat and sponsors happy...