Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chain Reaction. Friedman and Rosenman are fully aware of the plethora of factors that contribute to the 20th century epidemic of heart disease and premature death: obesity and diabetes, high-fat and high-cholesterol diets, smoking and lack of exercise, and hereditary tendencies. But the two doctors maintain that behavior patterns are at least as important as any of the other causes and may indeed underlie some of them. For example, the Type A's instantly aggressive response to trivial slights and threats may set off a chain reaction of hormonal changes that can impair the metabolism of fats...
...most disturbing aspect of the congressional decision was that it was taken without even a pretense of searching debate about the wisdom of lifting all controls when prices are soaring and restive unions are bent on pushing for fat pay boosts. Even optimistic Government forecasters expect prices to jump, at least temporarily, when controls die. Prices for steel, processed food, auto parts, machinery and other items are all expected to shoot up when controls are lifted. For the longer run, retail prices on a wide variety of general merchandise-clothing, home furnishings, sterling silverware-will probably be climbing rapidly...
...FAT FRIEND...
...miserably devours chocolates; 2) meets and falls in love with an itinerant oil geologist; 3) heroically goes off her feed in order to turn herself into what looks like a young Angela Lansbury, only to discover 4) that her lover, back from prospecting in Iran, actually prefers fat girls, whereupon 5) the cellulite freak abruptly departs and 6) a sadder but psychologically thinner Lynn sets out to face the future, like a reformed alcoholic with a missionary taste for Diet Pepsi...
...Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play is full of Henry's preening, his outrageous, satiric gaiety, which has something quite likable about it. Rose, who looks here like a limp Morey Amsterdam, brings the fat farm drama alive...