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Word: fatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing this while lolling around a pool in the Bahamas. Yes, I know you think I've got a cushy job. But that's nothing compared with Remar Sutton's. You know -- the fat, bald 45-year-old guy who decided to chuck it all, move to an island and dedicate a year of his life to becoming a hunk. He's been chronicling his progress in a series of wry letters appearing in scores of newspapers, but maybe you haven't been reading them. My friends find his quest both repellent (classic male vanity) and intriguing (classic male fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Rebuilding of Remar Sutton | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Such programs, which owe something to Reagan's long emphasis on volunteerism, usually stress the idea that compassion is best implemented through cooperation of governments, businesses and private citizens. "We are really apolitical," says Bayard. "Fat government is the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Reagan Administration... A Change in the Weather | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...waiting for the elevator. There is an enormously fat woman standing next to me, and I don't like her. I sense that she posesses none of the human qualities that I adore, such as the ability not to slobber profusely, not to smoke in unventilated areas, and not to mistakenly press elevator buttons other than the one she desires...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Days of Marble Steps | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...marble staircases and horizontal sky-scrapers. We must find alternate technologies before it is too late--please donate money to the Harvard Scientist Research Committee where they are currently developing a complicated see-saw apparatus on which yuppies can stand and bound pleasantly to their jobs when that fat lady is pushed out onto the other...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Days of Marble Steps | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

After a painful round of layoffs, CBS News staffers debate whether the network has just trimmed fat or done itself serious harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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