Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having no expert to call on (they must all be out LOVING today) I'll just hazard my own guess: Hallmark's LOVE was conceived on a Manhattan subway car by a fat, bald, 35-year-old greeting card writer with thick glasses, a perspiring brow, a poster of Cheryl Tiegs on his closet door and a conscience burdened by the same aboriginal sins Alexander Portnoy complained about. In other words, the Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but somebody is trying to pervert Valentine...
...cleanness of structure in advance or you're nowhere. With straight dramas you sometimes end up cutting half an act, but Deathtrap is like a house of cards--you can't pull one out without toppling the whole structure. We're clarifying in some places, and trimming a little fat, but we're already in opening-night shape...
...United Artists' new chairman Beckett named James Harvey, who is also a Transamerica vice president for the leisure-group operations; U.A.'s chief executive will be Andy Albeck, who was formerly U.A.'s vice president of operations. Among other assets, they inherit a fat list of 26 movies planned for release in 1978, including Hair, Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Rings and Woody Allen's first film since Annie Hall. Beckett insists that U.A. will continue to prosper, pointing out that it still has "one of the best distribution systems in the world." Krim and Benjamin...
...wrong. Recession, the climax of the Apollo moon-landing program, President Carter's scrapping of the B-l bomber project: all these riddled industry profits and caused huge layoffs in Southern California, Seattle and other aerospace centers. Currently, the industry is making an upward thrust, fueled by fat military and commercial order backlogs. But the present climb is expected to level off at a comfortable plateau, and the old boom-or-bust days may be gone forever. Says a California analyst: "For the next ten years there will be no thrills. But there will be no chills, either...
...multiple linkup is also proof that the Russians are acquiring the capability of constructing large orbital stations made of numerous components shipped up separately from earth and assembled in space. Said an American space official after seeing the three-part assembly on radar: "It looks like a long, fat Russian sausage in space...