Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking his subject from precocious childhood through audacious beginnings as an actor-director and finally to the status of cult figure to be wheeled in on special occasions, biographer Frank Brady reveals Welles as a thin man in which there was always a fat man trying to get out. Even as a tall, trim youth, Welles had gargantuan intellectual and physical appetites. It was not enough that he had prematurely grasped the concept that art was essentially an illusion, a magic show. He insisted on making his tricks as obvious as possible...
...become only so boring before it ceases to exist at all. Last week Los Angeles held an election and almost no one came -- only 23% of the voters turned out. Bradley does not need charisma to attract money; the bankers and developers in Los Angeles have wallets as fat as Michael J. Fox's. But politicians do need to inspire people, or at least keep them awake, if they are to lead as well...
...cultural debates taking place in the Soviet capital. Time has to be set aside for watching trend-setting "musical- information shows" such as View or the monthly video digest Before and After Midnight, or for perusing the thick monthlies like Novy Mir and Znamya, which Soviets affectionately call the "fat journals." If the short-lived liberalization that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 was known as "the thaw," the cultural revolution set in motion by Mikhail Gorbachev has proved to be nothing less than a spring flood...
While it would be an exaggeration to say thin is in, there's no question that Soviets are becoming more conscious of how they look. "My husband told me I'm fat and dowdy," says a 30-year-old schoolteacher between sit-ups at the Krylatskoya clinic. "We've been married ten years, and he's started jogging. So I have to lose weight too." Galina Promyslova, 36, a culinary technician, shakes her head disgustedly and says, "I want to get rid of these hips...
...Cost: $3.20 for an hour in the gym. Most of the customers seem pleased. "I've lost 20 lbs. and have 20 to go," says Russian-language teacher Tatiana Sarycheva, 28, as she slides up and down on a yellow abacus-like machine designed to massage away fat. Besides offering classes in exercise and diet planning, the clinic employs less conventional methods of weight control, including hypnosis and even acupuncture...