Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week or two or five under their belts, all convinced they were being screwed in one way or another by an Army that had them after they signed that X. One guy I talked to had failed at a rare bit of exercise and had been sent to "fat camp," whereupon he passed the test the very next day. Three weeks later he was still there, sweeping up after the other detainees and hiding from the drill sergeants' school next door (fat camp and a steady stream of newly anointed drill sergeants make for fun times, apparently...
HITTING THE MARK: What turns a top-notch opera singer into a full-fledged star? The perfect part and director can't hurt. Take baritone Mark Delavan in the New York City Opera's pratfall-packed production of Verdi's Falstaff. His sly acting and fat-bottomed voice--supported by Leon Major's lickety-split staging--have opera buffs buzzing about why he's not singing at the Met. Who cares, when you can see him in the role of a lifetime right...
...leather jackets and thinning hair with attitude. Punks look around nervously for their mothers and try to scam some beer. Others pretend to dance to the woompwoomp, and laugh. Yuppies sup, and eye each another. More waiting, more techno. Woompwoomp. Thickening, moist air. Finally: stringy guy with no body fat--like, none at all--and long hair walks out. Rockers, punks, yuppies, et cetera ecstatic. And Iggy Pop begins to play. Acoustic. What--as they say--the hell...
Though I have been oddly but warmly embraced in the past couple of years, I can't say that society won't reject you for being fat. It probably will. But I do dream of a time when we can all accept ourselves and one another. Maybe by 2025 we will have evolved into a supercool, supercaring superpower where all shapes and sizes can be regarded as sexy and beautiful. Where big women share space on billboards next to waifs and we embrace a progressive pansexuality. With advances in genetic engineering and antidepressants, maybe we'll all look and feel...
Camryn Manheim, who won an Emmy for her work on ABC's The Practice, is the author of Wake Up, I'm Fat...