Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Power Blackout of 1965. Her voice is a husky cousin to Marlene Dietrich's, but even amplification does not always make it audible. The character she plays, a kind of ouzo-and-sympathy doxy, is unsalvageable since joyous sweet-souled prostitutes are about as believable nowadays as jolly fat...
Diane Arbus is representative of this modern trend. She has photographed new subjects (transvestites, homosexuals and fat nudists), and in this exhibit has a picture. "Identical Twins" that is quite modern in several aspects. It is a print made from only half of a 35-mm negative that has been enlarged and cropped so that it is surrounded on three sides by thick black lines (the unexposed edges of the film). This produces what is called by scientists the "orientation response," and by artists, a pun on the ambiguous relationship between art (the process of creation) and reality. Remember Blow...
...lens that is just wide enough to produce sufficient distortion for the orienting response. A telephoto lens creates distortion of another sort; distance is compressed rather than stretched out. The use of a long lens in Lisette Model's "Street Scene" results in the compression of an incredibly fat woman into a two-dimensional, half-ton, endomorph...
...wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from his opponents. Soccer's rectangular field is perfect for the TV screen, the action is continuous (except, of course, for commercial breaks), the fat, 27-in. ball is easy to follow, and the rules are few and uncomplicated...
...group-therapy approach seems to work simply because it gives dieters a chance to air their problems and share their mutual unhappiness (people who are not fat are known as "civilians"). Says Jean Nidetch: "There's no such thing as a jolly fat person." Adds Jerry Pozner, a Long Island University junior who has reduced from 238 lbs. to 137 lbs.: "People eat because they're lonely. When you come to Weight Watchers, you're not lonely any more...