Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people are adequately dressed in their blue denims," reported Saar. But there are signs of austerity. "Many of the jackets are very heavily patched, but there was no one in rags or destitute. The Chinese are obviously healthy. I didn't see many fat people. They're a very fit nation now, and most of them are glowing with health...
...gray vegetable who says nothing, a fleshed-out phantom who serves as a grim reminder of the truly horrible facts of life that may be only a little further around the corner for this pathetic family. Zindel has also fashioned a dramatic structure that allows for no fat; the action moves at breakneck pace and the whole evening lasts only ninety minutes. Let me also point out that Zindel has thankfully failed to provide any sons for Beatrice to emasculate...
...simplicity, the Wankel engine has long been considered a strong contender to supplant piston engines in mass-produced autos. Invented in 1954 by a mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel, the engine replaces conventional cylinders and pistons with a triangular rotor that revolves in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat figure eight. The spinning rotor not only controls the intake of gasoline and exhaust of burned gases, but turns the shaft that drives the wheels of the car. Thus Wankel engines have far fewer moving parts than piston engines. Moreover, they lack valves, rods, lifters, a camshaft and a crankshaft...
Ordinarily, bankers keep their charges for borrowing in lockstep with those of rival lenders. But when the Chase Manhattan Bank initiated the latest round of interest-rate reductions two weeks ago, other bankers grumbled that it was too much too soon. The Chase sliced its prime rate by a fat ½%, from 5¾% to 5¼%. It was the tenth drop in the prime since June 1969, when it was at an alltime high of 8½%, and the eighth reduction in the past four months. Instead of going along as usual, other bankers reluctantly lowered their prime rates...
...other than Elaine May herself-by way of her lawyer: "a cliché-ridden, banal story ... It will be a disaster if the film is released." The trouble, claims the Star-Director-Writer, is not the performances, direction or scenario. It is the studio. Paramount, she claims in a fat 14-point complaint, took her black comedy away from her and "advised me ... that the film released would be that as cut and edited by Fritz Steinkamp, a Hollywood editor, and Robert Evans, a vice president of Paramount Pictures Corporation." In a fatter, angrier 81-count reply, Paramount insists that...