Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the fat man there may be a thin man, within the milquetoast a hero, within the bookkeeper a poet. Within every man, in any case, there seems to lurk an orchestra conductor - ready, at the sound of an 'A', to spring onto a fantasized podium in some glittering concert hall of the mind, drawing rich, powerful music from the players and bravos from an astounded audience. Few laymen get any closer to realizing this dream than wagging a finger behind their program notes, or surreptitiously waving their arms in front of their hi-fi sets. Last week...
Beneath vast, shifting vistas of fleecy clouds, the softly rolling land is marvelously fat and fertile, husbanded by generations of farmers to support plump cattle and rich green wheat. It is the Stour River Valley, a place of running streams and slow canals northeast of London, and almost from the moment he was born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched...
...cuts to a very high shot of the barge (from an airplane) which sweeps over it as it sails down river. The shot is a metaphor for their continuing progress, now stabilized by their reunion. At the same time it shows their objective situation--indeed the barge is so fat off that they cannot be seen on it. The shot thus distances us from them as it assures us of their safe progress. Showing their material and their mental situation in one, it lets us understand and love them at the same time...
...would also revamp the familiar telephone dial. "A man with Parkinson's disease or a man with fat fingers has great difficulty dialing," he says. "Why have holes...
...METABOLISM. Estrogens, but not progesterone, have long been known to influence the metabolism of fats-to the point where they have been given to men in the hope of lowering their blood-cholesterol levels and protecting them against heart attacks. In fact, says the University of Miami's Dr. William N. Spellacy, their effect on cholesterol is still debatable; they seem to increase the proportion of big, "flabby" fat molecules circulating in the blood. The most consistent finding, said Spellacy, is that increased estrogen levels cause increased blood levels of triglycerides, the complex, fat-containing molecules involved in atherosclerosis...