Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small-town Southern sheriffs invariably fat, ugly, ignorant, and look like they smell...
...President arrived at ten in the afternoon. At the airport to greet him were his able Vice President (who combines the baleful glare of Sonny Listen with a Groucho Marx mustache) and the fat, 5-ft.-tall head of the Youth League (who wears mammoth gold stars and carries his money in bulging sacks). During his stay the President was entertained by native dancers who balanced pickaxes, shovels and barrels of mortar on their heads. He supped on cherry pop and sponge cake while solemnly touring a gallery hung with photographs of Mao Tse-tung, Lenin and Lyndon Johnson...
Brillat-Savarin should have eaten so well. As a table fish, the steelhead offers the best of both its worlds: its flesh has the pink color and high fat content of a saltwater salmon, the delicacy and firmness of a fresh-water trout. Stuffed with onion, lined with bacon strips, drenched in tomato sauce, wrapped in foil and roasted over an open fire, the steelie is enough to make a gourmand out of a gourmet. But it is the sport, not the stomach, that makes a steelhead fisherman. Snorts one oldtimer: "Catching a steelhead for food is like visiting...
...made sharp, beautiful weapons out of obsidian from a nearby volcano and cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...
...Pantocrator of Orthodoxy was as royal a governor as any Byzantine emperor. Calvinism emphasized the stern lord of the Last Judgment, a magistrate who could govern the theocracy that was Geneva. The most painted figure in the history of art, Jesus has been portrayed in countless forms, from the fat-legged infant in the laps of serene