Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some souls must endure fate's buffets, and others are favored guests at destiny's sitdown dinners. Except for her fat period and a bit of mid-marriage bumpiness, Cheryl Tiegs' life seems to have been uncommonly secure and successful from the beginning. The warmth and strength she now shows so easily to the camera is clearly to some degree a reflection of what she knew as a child in Alhambra, Calif. Theodore Tiegs, an undertaker, was a steady, thoughtful, attention-paying father, says Cheryl, and her mother, Phyllis, was a laughing, cuddling person. Phyllis worked in a flower shop...
That was in 1970. They went to Los Angeles, and for two years, weary of the tedium and pressures of modeling, Cheryl stayed at home, acted as Stan's chauffeur, and lunched out a lot. She got fat. Then one day her scales registered 155. She reacted by stuffing herself with everything in the kitchen. Says Stan: "She started to go up the wall. She hid all the pain of the weight gain. It was bothering her more than she let on to anyone." Finally she was galvanized by a magazine shot of a model in a bathing suit. Within...
...week-long festivities climax on Mardi-Gras Day, or "Fat Tuesday," when the oldest, most traditional krewes--"Rex" and "Comus"--hold their celebrations. On that day, everyone, young and old, dons a bizarre costume and by 10 a.m. the entire city is drunk, reveling in a combination Halloween-New Year's Eve craziness. The Rex King--a wealthy New Orleans civic leader--glides downtown to toast his young Queen in a ritual unchanged for a century...
They are stock characters. It does not take a very penetrating eye to notice that some Florida tourists resemble wizened monkeys in floral shirts, or that some American housewives are fat, glazed by the tube and bloated with junk food. But such is the level of Hanson's social perceptions; all his art can do is count the details without furnishing any credible in sights. Like most "documentation" art, it is gratuitous, in a sprawling kind...
...most obvious, the book is a natural history of dwarfs, giants, hermaphrodites, Siamese twins, mutants, the monstrously fat, the grotesquely thin, dog-faced boys and zoophagous geeks. But the richly illustrated work is in fact a combination sideshow, meditation on human nature and medical textbook of the sort that librarians once kept locked away with scandalous volumes like Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis...