Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case in the recent Virginia mudfest between Oliver North and Charles Robb. The author, a political consultant, produces muck of a good, gooey consistency and characters who chuck it at each other with vigor. The best and most rascally is Matt's candidate, Governor Solomon Jawinski, a fat, Polish-Jewish carpetbagger from Detroit who drives an old El Dorado convertible and knows how to talk redneck. In a TV debate he points out that his opponent is too lean and too handsome. "When everybody in this country looked like me," he says, "our farmers were rich! Everybody ate white bread...
...profits. Similarly, performing-arts organizations use holiday chestnuts like Amahl and the Night Visitors and Handel's Messiah as surefire crowd lures. The New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker plays to more than 100,000 people each Christmas and earns the company a fat $5.6 million. For regional theaters, A Christmas Carol is an even bigger cash cow. "It pays the bills for the rest of the season," says Lawrence Harbison of Samuel French Inc., the premier play- licensing house. The adaptation of Dickens' 1843 cautionary classic is by far the most widely produced...
...Gene for Fat...
...achievement. "It's so cheesy," he says, "but I just want a little plaque that says, no. 1 tv show, no. 1 book, no. 1 movie. Just something for me, because I worked so hard I almost died: 18-hour days getting in and out of a fat suit, typing ((my book)) on my laptop. I looked forward to this day, right before Christmas, when it would all be over...
...fat product knocked by Feds for egregious labeling...