Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections. The established parties are painfully aware of that, and President Pastrana is pressing Congress for basic educational, agrarian and urban reorms. Meanwhile, inflation is increasing while the price of Colombia's prime export, coffee, is down to 40? a pound, v. $1 during the fat...
...make a serious point his pretentiousness and predictability are unbearable. He stretches a tasteless metaphor about a 24-hour pig slaughter house into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only is the allusion completely minus any human sensitivity but it's thin on originality...
...prisoners, he can climb out of the cave. With the dwarf women who took care of him on his back, he goes into the town to collect money by begging for supplies to dig the tunnel. The town is an exaggerated stereotype of a Hollywood Western town; boorish, fat old women in 1890's dresses, who ooh and aah as they watch two men kill each other; black slaves branded (before your very eyes, naturally), lynched, and accused of rape by lecherous women...
...sales territories are assigned, and a Koscot franchise is anything but exclusive. In some instances, "there could be 1,000 distributorships in a town of 7,000," says a spokesman for the Council of Better Business Bureaus, which has a fat file of complaints against Koscot. A few years ago, the New York attorney general's office noted that only 79 of the 1,604 distributors and supervisors in the state earned more than $5,000 a year. If all the people in the New York program were to earn the $100,000 that Koscot representatives say they could...
...Fat Checks and Twin Midgets. The catalyst for turning prospective investors into true believers is the "Golden Opportunity Meeting." Held in local halls around the country, these rousing sessions, led by flashily dressed men waving fat checks, raise tantalizing visions of big money and easy living for the frequently gullible audience. Often Turner himself will appear, accompanied by twin midgets who serve as his goodwill ambassadors. Sometimes balancing himself on two chairs. Turner spellbinds his listeners by recounting how he succeeded despite his harelip, his eighth-grade education and his early poverty...