Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyed visitors began coming to see him. After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned the names and residences of Ecuador's busiest dope dealers, George White led the Quito cops in 48 hours of raids...
Osborn draws a fat club member with the tight emptiness of a blown-up sheep bladder, a paranoiac as a jungle of harsh lines straining inside a box. And his captions have the impact of an uppercut. A black Spanish bull glowers from one page with this thought for the matador: "Now the bull is looking at you with intent to kill and all that is required of you is to go in over the horns...
...buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered how to use his humor...
...their gadding. The U.S.L.T.A.'s "emancipation proclamation" merely changed the text to fit long-existing facts. Whenever the eight weeks' rule was not honored in the breach, it was usually bypassed with exceptions. The tennis tourist's new year-round freedom to live off the fat of many lands will, nonetheless, add many new stops to old itineraries. Davis Cup Team Captain Seixas sees himself as a sort of ambassador. Says he: "You are not playing just for yourself, but for your country...
Doubtful as history, Salome is just as dubious as screen entertainment. A turgid multimillion-dollar blend of sex, spectacle and religion, it has been directed with a ponderous touch by William Dieterle. Chewing at the Technicolor scenery are Charles Laughton as a fat, licentious Herod, Judith Anderson as an evilly scheming Herodias, Alan Badel as a weirdly wild-eyed John the Baptist, and Stewart Granger as an intrepid Roman commander. Actress Hayworth does her best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl...