Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quantity of hemorrhoids or crotch hairs he has. This tally isn't his only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
...whodunit writer, whose corpulent orchidologist-detective, Nero Wolfe, with the help of his faithful legman Archie Goodwin, solved crimes in 46 books that were translated into 22 languages and sold more than 45 million copies; at his home in Danbury, Conn. As sinewy and energetic as his protagonist was fat and lethargic, Stout would work out the story line for such mystery novels as The Doorbell Rang and Too Many Cooks while puttering about his daily cooking or gardening chores, then sit down and type out a complete mystery in 38 days of writing. Stout's agoraphobic master sleuth...
Hoffa's "authorized book" emphasizes that ongoing war: Jimmy was smashing in scabs' heads and seeing company police shoot his friends when he led Teamsters organizing drives in the Midwest during the thirties. Meany was fat even then, holding down a sinecure as business agent for an AFL plumbers union in New York. Neither labor boss seems to have forgotten how he started...
...book also renders a service to minor league ballplayers, raising them to something near heroic stature. We're all used to reading about the Yastrzemskis and Jacksons and the other superstars who have the fat salaries, fancy apartments, and women in every city. But we seldom hear about the 95 per cent of ballplayers who never get to the majors, about the plight of the minor-league ballplayer who lives on $600 per month...
...raped" at the age of 13 by "a big chesty broad who sang blues songs," and Lou Rawls was practically raped at the same age by an obese woman who was a member of the church where Rawls was singing: "I think I balled a wrinkle, she was so fat," he says...