Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accordingly, he was not afraid of death and lived long and happily. He would have eaten cyclamates without a qualm, but he was not concerned about being fat either. And so, puffing gently at his pipe and sipping his whisky, he lived on, chatting with other old men, much too contented...
...Billion Neighborhood. To spur him on, there is the lesson of what is happening in the current fiscal year, when federal spending may well work out to total more than Nixon's hoped-for ceiling of $192.9 billion. The fat $5.8 billion surplus that the Administration once so cheerily anticipated will probably get much skinnier as the economy slows down and tax collections shrink with it. Nixon damned the Democratic-controlled Congress for putting his surplus in peril. "In the very session when the Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, it increased spending by $3 billion more than...
Time was, not so long ago, when to be fat, balding, unmarried and in your late 30s was to be scorned by strangers, pitied by the family and ridiculed by friends of friends. Not any more. Not, that is, if you are James Coco, a fat, balding, bachelor of 39 who opened to rave notices last week as Barney Cashman in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Neil Simon's latest smash...
...many Sunday dinners. "I come from an old-fashioned Italian family, where we used to sit down for Sunday dinner at 2 and get up at 7." Which explains the 250 lbs. spread over his 5-ft. 10-in. frame. What it does not explain is how a nice, fat Italian boy from The Bronx became an overnight success on Broadway after 22 years of trying...
...other business in the world would you be in for over two decades and not even have a watch to show for it?" Coco asks. "Do I consider myself a success? Yes. Yes. I'm a huge, tremendous, enormous success. In fact, I may start a whole new Fat Man trend." For Coco, newfound success manifests itself in such niceties as a chauffeured limousine and the three-quarters of a million-dollar advance sale for Lovers. He also has a major role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, plus an offer...