Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America is like an unloved child smothered in candy," says Piet Hanema. "God doesn't love us any more. He loves Russia. He loves Uganda. We're fat and full of pimples and always whining for more candy. We've fallen from grace...
...commissioned a long-range economic plan by Puerto Rican Consultant Teodoro Moscoso, the guiding hand behind Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" and a key organizer of the Alliance for Progress. Another Pindling achievement was ordering salaries for legislative and Cabinet members, thus eliminating the old system of fat "consultant's fees"-really payoffs and bribes-that flourished among the United Bahamian Party's government officials (TIME, Sept...
...only 42," he explains. "Brando is 43, Paul Newman is 43, but I look like everybody's father." True enough. Although Rod Steiger's weight rises and falls with tidal regularity-and the demands of the role-he normally carries about 220 lbs. of fat and gristle on his 5-ft. 10-in. frame. His hairline is almost a memory, and his jowls reflect years of studied attention to the pleasure of the table. Rod Steiger's worth has increased with his girth: his current fee is $500,000 a film, and most producers feel that...
...wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help of his equally intelligent father. The act is deliberate and they offer no defense at their trial. German courtroom justice, the army...
...similar physical set-up conveys a completely different spirit in Steinberg's alphabetic synopsis of America. The skies are filled with TWA and KLM, set slightly above NBC, CBS and RCA. The IRT comes up from a fat tunnel in the earth surrounded by AFL-CIO and IBM. He plays with these abbreviations to clinch the institutional American panorama...