Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snowfall will be 15 to 20 in. above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction: bears are fat and getting fatter, woolly bears (caterpillars) have thin brown bands across their middles and are moving fast, bushy-tailed squirrels are laying in extra supplies of acorns, bark on trees is extra thick. Onions are sporting thick skins, and everyone knows: "Onion skins very tough, winter's going...
Thin is in, right? And sexier besides. Well, not according to Anthropologist Anne Scott Beller. In her new book, Fat & Thin-A Natural History of Obesity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $10), Beller argues that fat women are not only cuddly, loving, jovial sorts, but more sexy too. She cites studies showing that endomorphic lasses are more responsive to erotic stimulation and have greater sexual appetites. In one survey conducted in a Chicago hospital, "fat women outscored their thin sisters by a factor of almost two to one," in terms of excitability. Only our culture's notion that fat is "morally...
...king of the outrageous has his farewell on the album. The last song, "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)" is an all-out exhortation to "move that muscle and shake that fat," and it works. Elton brings in piano, bass, drums, slide guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, congas, strings, and the Cornerstone Institutional Baptist and Southern Californian Community Choir, to join him in an assault on absolute boogie. The music doesn't really go anywhere, but it's fun while it lasts...
Since then, individual investors have been asking their brokers to cut them in on the game of arbitrage. Fat chance. Merger arbitrage is a gamble only for high rollers-people with the wealth and insouciance to risk millions on a single transaction. There are other types of arbitrage, but they are scarcely as exciting. The word arbitrage is old French, and in that language means "arbitration." In financial English, it has traditionally described trading on price variations on the same commodity in different markets -buying cotton in New York, say, and selling it in Hong Kong, where the price might...
...cowed by the competition. The morning News (circ. 2 million) and the afternoon Post (circ. 609,000), he says, are the "Chinese restaurants of journalism-an hour after you read them you're still hungry." As for the newly restyled Times (circ. 854,000), Saffir calls it "successful, fat, stuffy" and alleges that the paper has perpetrated a virtual news blackout on the birth of its new morning competitor. Counters Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "Mr. Saffir's remarks are too contemptible to answer." It is true that the Times has limited its Trib coverage to brief announcements...