Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church memorial...
...wisecracking racketeer who understands that it's all a racket. "Marriage, politics, big business- everybody plays cops and robbers," and who says "Listen, lousy," when he means "I love you," Steven Gilborn's Moe Axelrod grows on you throughout the production. Donald Buka polishes off the role of the fat cat capitalist Uncle Morty as effortlessly as he wolfs down the huge dinner with which Bessie woos...
...also kindly dismiss my ouster from this country as something that can be remedied easily by paying $10 and applying for a fresh visa. My U.S. visa is now stamped in big fat letters CANCELED -DEPARTURE REQUESTED...
...informed and less tolerant of physicians' mistakes-which do happen more often than doctors would like to admit. Ever more dependent upon specialists, patients also feel fewer qualms about suing a brain surgeon or dermatologist than they would their old and trusted family physician. At the same time, fat malpractice cases are more and more appealing to lawyers, who stand to keep as much as one-third to one-half of any damages awarded by a court...
...been reading the Globe want-ad section assiduously for three months after returning to Boston in September from California with no results. Had I wanted to be a taxi driver, clerk-typist, or management trainee with Jack-In-The-Box I would have been in fat city, but since I was looking for something a bit more meaningful I was getting nowhere. One day I saw an ad that sounded appealing: EARN UP TO $160 A WEEK (BASED ON PRODUCTIVITY), it said, directing its cleverly worded pitch to those between school, out of school, and between the ages...