Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example of the left-handed postal clerk wasn't silly. Regrettably, the man-made environment is usually designed for the "average" citizen, which leaves out the majority: short, tall, pregnant, fat, disabled or lefthanded. Flexible solutions are possible if the buyers of design service see the importance of designing for everyone. Keep fighting, lefties...
Nothing seems to have been unusual about his education. He attended Christopher Columbus High School in The Bronx, where he rarely dated and was teased for being fat, and he stuck to Bronx Community College for only one year. He spent some of his free time with the New York City police auxiliary service. This did not involve training in the use of firearms or crime detection. He was taught how to direct traffic, administer first aid and perform other rescue-related duties. Fellow trainees considered him introverted but not particularly reclusive...
...profits rose to $25.5 million, from $22.2 million a year earlier, but they would have been three times as large without a $52.7 million TriStar write-off. Lockheed's share of the commercial jet aircraft market is a puny 2.7%, compared with McDonnell Douglas' 28% and a fat 52% for Boeing...
...record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large, white, engorged with visual appetite, look like erogenous zones. All his women-those grandly callipygian wardrobes of radiant flesh, whose bodies we feebly classify as "fat"-seem, as Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, to have "fed upon roses." The late landscapes he painted around Chateau de Steen, his country seat out side Brussels, are an extraordinary blend of the God's-eye-view landscape of mannerist art with the dense enumeration of Rubens' own material...
Rippling Comedy. In the early stages of the novel, Scott plays the antics of his couple and their anomalous place in Indian society for laughs. The only threat to their continued self-imposed exile also seems comic. Mrs. Bhoolabhoy, the fat and temperamental hotel owner, is trying to evict the Smalleys so that she can raze the old building. With the timid and ineffectual...