Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donald Maclean was sandy-haired, tall, with great latent physical strength, but fat and rather flabby. Meeting him, one was conscious of both amiability and weakness. He did not seem a political animal but resembled the clever, helpless youth in a Huxley novel, an outsize Cherubino intent on amorous experience but too shy and clumsy to succeed. He sought refuge on the more impetuous and emancipated fringes of Bloomsbury and Chelsea...
...Frank Sinatra walked into your office and punched I TIME Hollywood Correspondent] Ezra Goodman right in the middle of his fat face, I can't say I'd blame him . . . NELLO PACETTI Kenosha...
...kept pace with the new gambling facilities. But more important was the lack of experience of the new hotelmen themselves. A well-established casino-hotel that cost $5,000,000 often takes in as much from gambling in just one year. But the hotel must have a fat bank roll, be prepared to take months of heavy losses before its luck turns and it gets the free-spending, heavy-gambling regular clients that are the shock absorbers in the older places. In one new hotel there were so many bosses that some were unknown to each other. The new hotels...
...watched it in the life. The actors try hard to weather naturally into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably about town, sweet-talking old ladies, flipping quarters like a slow jackpot, and looking all the while like a fat, greasy thumb that has been stuck too long in the pork barrel...
Actually, Ben Moulay Arafa, who does not like being Sultan and holes up in small palace quarters once occupied by one of Ben Youssef's concubines, is stalling for time, and hoping for a fat French pension in return for abdicating (his advisers are reportedly asking 3 billion francs-almost $8,500,000). General de Latour marched out of his interview with Moulay Arafa, conspicuously and deliberately omitting the traditional Moroccan wish that his reign would be long and prosperous...