Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy living room, Jack and L.B.J. and their lieutenants faced each other in a circle. Johnson sipped a weak Scotch and soda, pulled documents and memoranda from his fat dispatch case, and dominated the meeting. Since the upcoming session of Congress was Topic A, Jack was content to listen to the advice and schemes of his leader in the Senate, Lyndon Johnson. Wives Jackie and Lady Bird sat together on a nearby couch, put through long-distance calls for the conferees to Adlai Stevenson* and Governor Steve McNichols of Colorado...
...were married in a sudden dash to New Jersey following a Broadway matinee: "Mr. Ziegfeld was furious when he saw that the hanging of four men had pushed our wedding off the front pages." Why had Billie never joined her husband's girlie galas? "My legs were too fat. But he didn't discover that until we were married." France's favorite spinner of adult bedtime stories, Novelist Francoise Sagon, 24 and recently divorced, looked at life and love in rather young-fogy fashion for an interviewer from the quarterly Transatlantic Review. Sighed she wearily...
...medals upon the chests of hated dictators, furnished weapons to other petty tyrants. A tide of suspicion and hostility rises against us. By failing for too long to implement an imaginative 'food-for-peace' program, this Administration has wrongfully permitted the ugly image to spread of a fat America hoarding food in a hungry world. Somehow we lost, and have yet to recapture, the initiative in space," and at the same time have lost the edge in military strength to the Russians. "Is it possible that the richest nation in history can no longer afford...
...time its pony-tailed and sandaled youth has swollen into the biggest political fact in Britain, led by zealots and exploited by those who know that pacifism cannot help but help the Russians. And when, in a landslide-election win, the anti-Bomb boys and girls take power, the fat of 1,000 years of British history is in the fire. In a few weeks, the Yanks with their hydrogen-warhead missiles have been moved back to their own hemisphere and Britain is free to become another peace-loving People's Republic, with a Russian "inspectorate," concentration camps...
More important, Berry stays too much at the surface of the role. In the case of Falstaff, surface bulks large, and Berry satisfactorily pads himself out and gives us the lovable fat knight. But he does not attempt the more difficult task of showing us Falstaff in all his unlovely reality--he is, after all, a coward, a thief, an abuser of the right of conscription--and after making us realize all this, bringing out the spirit that still makes him "sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff...