Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the delegates honest by running such headlines as GUILTY, GULLIBLE AND STUPID-THE IMAGE OPEC COUNTRIES SHOULD BEWARE OF. As a prod to flabby consciences, the puckish Pan staff set up a scale in the delegates' lounge and encouraged overweight representatives to donate a $3-per-lb. "fat tax" to its antihunger crusade. About $150 was collected -perhaps the most tangible expression of good faith seen in Rome last week...
...Fat Man. At one point, the most vicious of my tormentors got down on his knees in front of me, lifted up my hood so I could see his face and said that he would kill me if I did not cooperate. I believed him. Later, he told me his name: Luis Miranda Filho, a swarthy fat man with a huge black mustache. He is a notorious sadist, known in Recife to be responsible for countless tortures. He and a Colonel Meziat, identified as chief of intelligence of the Fourth Army and the man responsible for my imprisonment and torture...
...steel multiples he made in the '60s, glittering machine-age bibelots. The larger work is a very different matter. Even more than the paintings, Bill's sculptures begin with a baldly simple form but end as mysteriously contemplative apparitions. Construction from a Ring (1940-41) is a fat torus or ring sliced in half and then set up with one half balanced on the other. It is a geometrical form, like the three-dimensional mathematical models that made an indelible impression on Bill when he saw them at the Musée Poincaré in Paris...
...imminent danger. The U.M.W. also demanded a big increase in pensions, which now provide retired miners with a maximum of $150 a month (v. $625 for auto workers), plus a cost-of-living escalator. All that in addition to a basic wage increase at least as fat as the one in steel. A steel-type settlement would theoretically raise the average hourly wage in the mines by 20% in the first year, to $7.40; that would put the miners ahead of both the steelworkers (average hourly wage: $7.13) and the auto workers ($5.63). The miners argue that their...
...colors their lives. Having sacrificed her own youth to the care of her mother, she holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated. The time is 1944 and the city is full of American soldiers: "Overpaid," as Rita's father (and everybody else) once said, "oversexed and over here...