Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something. I never I'd live to see the day. They're ganging up on us, him and Charlie Pride. I never thought I'd see a nigger imitatin' Elvis Presley. And then Donna Fargo who'd almost been forgotten, came out and sang well enough. A very fat girl and a very thin girl had been waling up together throughout the show to take pictures of the performers and now when the people saw Donna Fargo bend down to give them a better shot they all started coming up too with their Instamatics and there were flash cubes going...
...society that provides strong legal sanctions against discrimination based on race, religion and sex, where can an aspiring bigot turn for victims these days? Robert Half, president of a New York-based personnel agency, claims he has ferreted out an as yet unforbidden social prejudice: against the fat. Half-5 ft. 10 in. and 150 Ibs.-surveyed 15,000 executives across the nation and discovered that of those earning $25,000 to $45,000 per year, only 9% were more than 10 Ibs. overweight. In the $10,000 to $20,000 bracket, however, fully 40% were. Half s conclusion...
...When you discriminate against overweight people, you may end up with mediocrity. One client said he didn't want anybody who was from Brooklyn or fat...
...desperate degrading of her memory, James had made love to a fat tart "with the face of a baby doll" night after night in the private compartment next to his dead mother. At the end of the journey, he was too drunk even to attend her funeral. As Josie realizes, the only thing James wants from her is the temporary peace of absolution. She cradles him like a lost child, knowing that death alone can absolve...
...name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors and the indelible clack of skeletons rising from granite tombs. Dashiell Hammett's detectives, Sam Spade, The Thin Man and The Fat Man, gave audiences a private eye and earful; other ops-Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance and Martin Kane-were even more hardboiled. Ben Hecht himself could not glamorize the press as well as oldtime radio. Britt Reid (the true identity of the Green Hornet) was a newspaperman; so, for that matter...