Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made it his business to expose all the fears and contradictions that lie underneath the complacent enjoyment of material wealth. His method of exposure is almost always the same: the introduction of some moral dilemma into the lives of his characters, which interrupts their mindless pursuit of Fat City and reveals the bankruptcy of their natures...
TEXAS is really two distinct countries. There is high-rolling Texas, oil-rich and cattle-fat, iridescent with electronic gadgetry. This is the Texas of the Hunts and the Murchison brothers and Neiman-Marcus, and multimillion-dollar transactions conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked...
...performance is very pleasant. (As I'm a sucker for spirituals, even for fake-cheery ones. I found the Negro's (Leonard Easter's) "Feelin'Good" more than pleasant.) All the parts are essentially ham turns, and they're played until every last ounce of fat is caught. The choreography is, appropriately, elbow-swinging and gymnastic (except for a nice, modest ballet by Debbie Coleman). The new Leverett House Old Library Theater, with its small scale and wood panelling, is quite cozy--one enters through the stage, which is attractively cluttered with Jack Hanick's set: bright, upended trapezoid canvases...
...Again we are blaming the Japanese for our economic problems. Your article is something else people can grasp as a reason for hate. It comes at a time when there is a tendency to blame Japan for a trade imbalance created by allowing our workers to become fat and lazy. The simple fact is that the United States has been priced out of the world market. In most industries our workers are not so productive as the Japanese, and our technology is not superior...
...increases provided in their present contract have been eaten up by inflation. Largely as a result of productivity gains, today's 100,000 miners produce more than did the 400,000 men who worked in the industry in 1950. The operators could certainly live with a fat pay increase. Last year the after-tax earnings of seven major mining concerns doubled to $47 million. The rising need for electric power practically insures that demand for coal will continue increasing at its present annual rate of 4.5% for a long time to come...