Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Manager John B. Atkinson developed a halo during his decade in office, and he deserved it. Where once aldermen grew fat from their trucking contracts with Cambridge, city officials from kickbacks, and politicians in general from the hopeless tangle of Cambridge finance, Atkinson reduced city administration to a degree of orderliness and efficiency which any modern corporation would be proud to claim...
Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...
...liked the company, the dancers returned the feeling with interest. Offstage they enthusiastically pursued the gourmet trail, gawked at the sights, suffered the usual tourist complaints (sniffles, upset stomachs). They all put on some weight, and thereby drew a rebuke from Purist Balanchine: "Some of them have become so fat it is difficult to look at them...
Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...
...clothes, on the seamy side of American life. Born and raised in Boston's South End slums, he knows the harsh, scrabbling lives of the poor, and he brings their hurt faces alive in his canvases. The stock characters in Levine's more preachy pictures-fat capitalists, leering politicians and sneering cops-always look like more than types; he paints them with real anger and a genius for caricature...