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...what is perhaps the most poignant scene in the movie, Cohen sits down with Duddy in the sauna of his country club and lectures him on the risks and pitfalls of the business world. Cohen's face is fatter, his eyes puffier, his hair thinner, but underneath he is a 45-year-old Duddy, playing the same game. All the failures, the deadends, the shameful deeds accumulated over decades have done nothing to wean Cohen from a world where all behavior is governed by passions. "Listen, Duddy," he tells Kravitz through the steam sauna, "it's not all wine...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Mensch on the Make | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

...most of last year, the average worker's pay has been running behind prices. The energy crisis has heightened union discontent, kicking prices even higher, and in some cases costing jobs. Thus rank-and-file members are putting the heat on their leaders to go after much fatter settlements, even though that would further balloon prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK: After the Boom, a Siege of Uncertainty | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...long-overdue policy shift, will no longer pay farmers to hold down production. Butz warns farmers to expect shortages of fertilizers and of propane gas used to dry grains. But barring drought, blight or flood, the men and women on the land can look forward to an even fatter harvest and richer incomes next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Jubilant Farmers | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...mother of six. Then, to the astonishment of nearly everybody, at age 37, she produced a massive, readable, academically respectable biography of Mary Queen of Scots. Now, nearly five years later, as if intent on proving that her first success was no accident, the lady has delivered a fatter and more scholarly study of Oliver Cromwell, the florid, slovenly country gentleman who became Britain's first Lord Protector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Begone, You Rogues | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...Taming of the Shrew. Burton and Taylor in happier, if fatter, times. Franco Zefferelli directed this lush adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy, and the transition from stage to screen is a ribald, rousing success. The still beautiful Taylor and the seething, brutal Burton swagger through the film with consummate ease, and one suspects this is because they have played the same roles for real. Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

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