Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pull my fat baby belly...
...smooth plaster cylinder he is safe; it is his turf, aloof, contained. Despite the energy of his grinding movements, no emotion glides over his soft face and glazed eyes. Perhaps he imagines that there is a razor-tin glass wall around his little world that keeps out the fat curls of smoke and perfume and breath thickened with alcohol. Here is no tall, thin, hipless model. The boy is a bit short and very muscular--he resembles classical statues of Greek god. Perhaps he pretends he is centuries away, dancing in some ancient mystic ritual. The glass wall deflects...
Peter isn't the only one who feels trapped in his job, but he's the only one to force a way out. The Jewish pastry maker (Ken Levy) strolling on the rims of his feet with the tipsy gait of a fat man, spits out a profane nightmare in response to Peter's plea for a dream: "When the world is full of kitchens, you get pigs." But the pastry cook meekly figures someone has to roll out dough, assemble cars and take coal from the ground, anyway. The Kitchen's Italian cook will be all right as long...
...much too specific. The disputed item was a rough diagram of the floor plan of a North Sacramento branch of the Bank of America. The single sheet of paper carried a handwritten note by Patty: "saw 7 employees: 5 women & 2 men (1 young & nervous. Manager is fat & Black...
...interesting I could have kicked the habit. Agatha Christie, who has all the psychological insight of second year algebra, couldn't have maintained interest like that, and if you've ever tried Rex Stout you'd know after three of four books that Nero Wolfe is really just a fat old fart. Almost every collection of one-author-one-genre books gets repetitive after a while: critics betray this by calling thrillers a "craft" or a pulp writer a "masterful technician," generally revealing that the formulas don't hold up for long and that while reading them is somewhat understandable...