Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine considered feminine health problems with an obstetrician's candor, nourished the dreams of fat girls everywhere with an endless array of case histories ("I Lost 160 Pounds and I Am Just Beginning to Live...
...Summer to Remember is such an attempt--and to some extent such a failure. But despite occasional moments of sentimentality, sequences of conventional childish pranks, and stock characters like fat, cruel aunts and foolish uncles, the movie is a sensitive and poignant expression of a little boy's dreams and frustrations. With an oddly appealing combination of keen insight and good, old-fashioned corn, it explores his reactions to the changes in his life during one summer...
...uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which is part of God, demands it: "I act well with God. I give him good food...
...Paul had tried to infuse all the scenes with songs as melodious as the title tune, and with lyrics as scintillating as those in the second number, they would have produced a fine piece of work. But by taking the easy way out, they have created only a big fat fluffball...
...followers, is from another a lesson on how to win a war. But more than that, the real Communist lesson is that, by adopting a certain sort of military organization, a people can be reborn. on the military plane, this means doing away with "that headquarters ("bald, pot-bellied, fat-assed men, incapable of marching half a dozen miles without melting away in their own dishwater-like sweat, with like Franco and the fawning manners of Spanish Jesuits"), the broader effect is to reawaken appreciation of the very values the Communists were trying to destroy...