Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bosley Crowther (and many others) urged me to see an "absolutely staggering" picture--a funfest of wild drinking, bad words, sexy scenes and naughty thoughts, with a few fat moral issues to cement them together in the plot. But this movie is not a celebration of barbarism, nor even a squalid stripping of souls on the "Marty" bandwagon. If you arrive drunk or depressed you may not enjoy yourself, because there are admittedly some pretty unpleasant scenes. Your date may not enjoy herself, because there's no heroine to identify with...
...most monolithic, if not orderly, object in Finney's neighborhood is the fat lady who loiters at the alley gate. Finney seeks his insight, when near her, by aiming a delightful series of objects and projectiles at her ample behind. He seeks truth in drunkenness; he seeks it in sex. He does indeed go to bed with his girl friends on camera, but I was disappointed to find his companions more modestly clothed than in the poster out front...
...lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins. In the bayous of Gulf Coast Texas stands Houston, a young, lusty oilman with a fat wallet, unfenced-in tastes and opinions that tend to be conservative. And Los Angeles, on the Pacific shore, is a fast-growing, outdoor girl-a lady with jet contrails ruffling her hair, celluloid coiled around her feet, and a reputation for capriciousness that she does not wholly deserve...
...flophouse bed is vacated, it is immediately filled by one of the hordes of migrants who are once more moving north and west at the rate of thousands a day. In Charleston, Atlanta and other Southern cities, anonymous pamphlets urge Negroes to go north and live off fat charity provisions; their steady flow northward is creating an enormous and potentially explosive problem for the big cities. "What Chicago really needs," says a Chicago politician, "is a Point Four program in Mississippi." The Negro population of Chicago has jumped from 8% in 1940 to 23%-and experts believe that...
...Darling fat girl, anyone who has given so many people such pleasure and fun is doomed to go on doing it." Thus encouraged by Fellow Worldling Noel Coward, Café Society Mixmaster Elsa Maxwell, 78, rose from the Manhattan bed to which a heart attack confined her three months ago and began once again to share her doom with the readers of her syndicated, confidences. Though her ordeal had modified her physique-on doctor's orders she had already reduced from 200 to 165 lbs.-it had not mitigated her relentlessly chatty columnar style. Opening gambit in her first...