Word: fatted
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...despite its serious concerns, "Raised in Captivity" is not a ponderous philosophical play. "Raised in Captivity" has perfected the art of maintaining serious thematic goals while still being a comedy. Although the jokes in "Raised in Captivity" are not very original--fat jokes and physical comedy prevail--it's very well done and quite witty, which is more than most plays can deliver...
...books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they're easier than autobiographies, although the inspiration for most of them is plain. Lake's book is about a fat girl; Burton's is about a boy who pretends to be Vincent Price; and Williamson's title is Emma & Mommy Talk to God. Let's hope Keillor's book isn't too autobiographical. It's about a man who likes really smelly cheese...
...first-year John Natchez's case, it took the whole moon. Moon Records, that is. This February, the record company released "Fat Footin,"" the first album of Skavoovie and the Epitones, a ska group in which Natchez plays saxophone...
...seat at the table. Brown not only sat at the table, but often sat at its head. He was among the first of a new breed of black Washington insiders with the connections and influence to make things happen for clients as diverse as civil rights leaders and fat-cat corporate executives. Jesse Jackson, for one, describes himself as "a tree shaker, not a jelly maker." Brown was just the reverse, a jelly maker par excellence...
...matter how many diatribes echo through the halls of Congress, lawmakers continue to lard the folks back home with old-fashioned, mouth-watering pork. In their just published Pig Book, the group Citizens Against Government Waste ferrets out $12.5 billion of fat in 1996 government spending. A few choice cuts, which we have graded by oinks (out of five) for piggishness...