Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thanks for taking a big fat load off my mind. For some time I'd been wondering whether this Nicholas von Hoffman [Jan. 5] was for real. I had been reading the product of his labors with horrified fascination, astounded that here we had an instant expert on absolutely everything and wincing at his diatribes against fat, contented, middle-class whites...
...trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince Lombardi's starchiness: $50 a minute is the price of tardiness to any meeting, $50 a pound is the cost of excess fat at Thursday weigh-ins. No mustaches or mutton chops are permitted. Long hair is utterly unthinkable. How does Stram reconcile his own flamboyant wardrobe (30 suits, often set off by a red vest) with his fundamentalist attitude? "If it's my team, things have to be done my way. That...
...fat as a circus tent. It has no pride...
...integrates the bawdiness of a peasant-soldier and the fresh poignancy of a boy in love for the first time, which on the face of it would seem impossible. He shows his versatility in the second act as a sniveling aspirant to the judgeship, the pathetic nephew of the Fat Prince (Harvey Cushing). Cushing comes across with a very funny performance in his own right as a Mikado-like royal butt-licker/petty intriguer...
...British supertub is called the "Sagittarius Double Bath" and costs about $750. It was conceived two years ago, by British Interior Decorator Godfrey Bonsack, merely as an oversized one-man tub. "I'm short and fat," explains Bonsack, "and I wanted a raised step on one end for soaping, and then to be able to turn around and stretch out from the other end for soaking. But then, I thought, the four-foot width was just right; wouldn't it be fun if two people used it together?" Yes, indeed, agreed the several hundred customers who have already...