Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a while since Bill Cosby regaled audiences with stories of how he, Fat Albert and friends careened their way around parental authority to enjoy the gooey fruits of childhood. Cosby, 48, has grown some since (and his audiences have grown even more). Right now his comic focus is on how adults survive having kids. Thus the blurb makers, with more cause than usual, have dubbed him "America's Favorite Father." And just in time for Father's Day, | by no marketing coincidence, Cosby is out with a spanking-new best seller that rollicks through his mostly tried and mostly...
Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...Whattaya talkin' about?!" roared an enormous fat man behind the counter, brandishing a baseball bat. "Buy somethin' or get the hell outa heah...
...rocked Wall Street. In their view, many of those battles led to substantial portfolio losses for investors as beleaguered corporate executives paid off would-be takeover artists with greenmail, adopted so-called poison-pill measures to dissuade unwanted suitors by making their firms less attractive targets, or handed themselves fat settlements known as golden parachutes. All too often, argues New York's Goldin, "the shareholders have gotten short shrift...
...prices for just about every other consumer product. That means more real income, more consumer demand and more jobs--even considering increased unemployment in the capital-intensive oilfields. So let's have no illusions that Bush's "price stability" is motivated by concern for anyone but the fat-cat oilmen who contribute to his campaign fund...