Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college set, Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward R. Murrow were the patron saints of nicotine. F.D.R.'s cigarette, in a holder at a jaunty angle, proved him both a dapper patrician and a man of the people, while the . can-do bosses of the public weal sucked on fat cigars. Smoke-filled rooms gave us Social Security and the Marshall Plan. In smoke-free rooms we get S&L fraud and Whitewater...
...reason this experience tastes so bitter is that it betrays the real promise with which it beings. "Proxy" comes on strong with great caricature studies of board meetings and fat cat executives in pin stripes. A "Brazil"-esque mythicized urban landscape with the austerity of Orwell's 1984 completes the pretensions of a grand satire on corporate America. But somewhere along the way, the Coens run out of jabs at Wall Street and turn instead to punning silver screen sappy romance. Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who once talked fast and moved like a journalists with a mission, is reduced...
Except for mother's milk, no drink boasts a more wholesome reputation for youngsters than fruit juice. Full of vitamin C, it contains no fat, and kids ) just lap it up. In fact, by age five, the average American child guzzles 9 gal. a year of the sweet-tasting stuff, most of it apple juice. But new evidence indicates that for babies less than 24 months old, consuming large quantities can actually prove harmful. The liquid fills their tiny stomachs and ruins their appetite for foods that contain nutrients and calories they need. According to a study published...
...finding serves as a warning to parents who, in a misguided effort to limit their babies' fat consumption, substitute fruit juice for whole milk or formula in their babies' bottles. Despite doctors' constant preaching against the sins of saturated fat for adults and older children, pediatricians agree that fat should not be restricted for children under two. Young children need the protein and the fat found in dairy products for normal growth and brain development. Fruit juice contains neither...
...Sunday we bough a bag of tomatoes. On Wednesday e rediscovered them in a dark corner of the kitchen, dribbling weird liquids and seething with resentment like fat, red, neglected infants. We took them out of the bag to breathe, arranged them lovingly on the countertop, and immediately forgot them again. By Friday they were soft and bloated, and some had fuzzy black implosions in their yellowing skins...