Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guise of "good fun" or "tradition." I would not be true to my promise as a reporter who has covered the life and times of this school if I did not end this piece by answering why this situation has persisted. Congress is and has been a big fat boys club, but we've got the prototypes right here with doors only too ready to slam in the faces of ladies with some of the swankiest Ivy degrees around...
...Yorker. He tells Alger's story as a kind of cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth and a sick man's mysterious need to destroy), a former communist agent who told congressional investigators that Hiss transmitted government documents to him between...
There is also a guy you can hire to sit at your table at a restaurant to prevent you from ordering high-fat foods, like some sort of Zone Diet Escort Service. So last Thursday I called this guy, surrogate willpower professional David Kirsch, a gym owner who gets $150 an hour as a trainer, and asked him to dinner. But since Kirsch has so many celebrity clients (Ivana Trump buys him dinner often, and model James King paid him to go with her to Paris restaurants during the runway shows), he already had plans. So he agreed to come...
David, a cross between Cal Ripken and a machine that crushes cars, was in my office for about three minutes before he jumped up, ran his hands over my upper body and estimated my body-fat percentage. Here my notes say just that "he touched me in funny places." I don't know if I was trying to be a thorough reporter or just really well instructed from that ABC Afterschool Special...
...scavenged for snacks, as is our nightly ritual. On our way to Barbara's Drawer of Chocolate, we passed some peanuts and pretzel sticks. "Did you set this up?" he asked incredulously. "Did you just put this here?" Seeing his reaction to mildly high-carb and high-fat foods, I circumvented Barbara's Drawer and took him to Ray's Closet of Low-Fat Snacks. He was not impressed. "In the late '80s, the dairy industry and the packaged-goods industry created this low-fat and no-fat bulls___," he said slowly and quietly, as if we were...