Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massaging the Fat. Lyndon Johnson has so artfully arranged the evidence that nobody can be certain whether he intends to raise taxes or hold the line. "New numbers come in almost every day," said Ackley, and Johnson juggles them with the skill of a center-ring virtuoso. Last week, for example, aides in Austin hinted that the fiscal 1968 budget might total $140 billion-an almost certain portent of higher taxes. Almost immediately, however, they began "massaging" the fat out of that figure. Come January, and-presto!-Johnson will look like a genius if he unveils a budget...
...world I dreamed-without the infirm and the fat without dollars, rubles or pesetas, with no frontiers, no phony...
Georgy has other chances to moralize. She is, after all, the good-hearted fat girl badgered by a bunch of slick, corrupt elders: a bitchy nymphomanic roommate who deserts her own child and runs off with an anonymous sugar daddy; a ne'er-do-well lover who quits his job, ignores his baby, and calls Georgy "fat face;" and a butler father who pressures her to marry his leering middle-aged employer. Plain, put-upon, hugging her baby-care books to her ample front, Georgy is supposed to be a sympathetic figure; but what the director and the weeping girls...
...people get you on any hate-Germany kick, either. You know how everybody hates the Nazis in this country? Well I'll tell you why. It's because they brought in the Reichmark which threatened to undercut the business of all the fat Jewish bankers in this country, that's why. And you know why Lincoln was killed? Because he was trying to bring in the green-back dollar, and the Jewish bankers wouldn't let him. The man who killed him, Booth, he was a member of the House of Warburg. The historians could find all this...
...that he is above the level of everything he films. In The Chelsea Girls, Warhol shows a condescending attitude todard his characters, illustrated by his willingness to let them overplay and caricature themselves. That is why the camera repeatedly zooms in on the jiggling breasts of the fat lesbian while she phones-in her order for 300 caps of acid. In her way, she's very funny. Warhol lets you enjoy her as long as you give him the credit for seeing her first...