Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lies are written on fat faces...
...creates with considerable grace her abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...
...themselves who provide the ring of truth. Mulligan did his casting on the city's streets, and coaxed from a group of inexperienced youngsters (some of whom showed up for work with switchblades) a series of magnificent life studies. One unforgettable moment: Ellen O'Mara as the Fat Girl, at a school dance in the arms of the English teacher (Patrick Bedford) she idolizes, her square pudding face aglow in awe and beatification. At such moments, rare in cinematic annals, the camera uses unadorned reality as its point of departure and comes around full circle...
Even though people are eating less than they did in 1900, he said, "desk-sitting types" no longer need so much energy. So food turns to fat, and fat to a prospective heart attack. Mayer compared American men with animals penned up to be fattened for the kill...
...concert was free, unlike all the previous ones sponsored by the 1967 Summer School. The top brass and woodwind would do well to consider reverting to the policy of earlier summers and making all its concerts free - at least to students - since the Summer School reportedly shows a fat profit every year. It is really niggardly to ask students to pay money to sit it a Turkish bath and listen to music saddled with obbligati by fire sirens, motorcycle mufflers, and horns of the non-french variety...