Word: fattish
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...Nations Protection Force, we make our way from the besieged to the besiegers. We pass through the lines, through checkpoints and no-man's-lands, to the headquarters of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb nationalist chieftain. Karadzic is a poet and, in civilian life, bizarrely enough, a psychiatrist. A sleek, fattish man with an expensive double-breasted suit, bushy eyebrows and flamboyantly styled long hair. I try to conjure up a psychiatric session with this healer. I see certain Hippocratic problems with a head doctor who would lead his patients not out of murderous fantasies but deeper into them. After...
...functions. By the time she had taken some photos for the family album and finished her ten-day visit, she was being criticized not only for her manners but for her looks and taste. Liz, carped Zan-E-Ruz, Iran's largest women's magazine, "is a fattish, short, big-busted woman with poor makeup, and totally out of fashion." ∙ "She predicted we wouldn't do well against Chicago last weekend, and they kicked the living dickens out of us," noted Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley of his new employee. She is Laurie Brady, an astrologer...
...life very lightly, discussing his novels and short stories briefly and barely mentioning both his career as critic for the New Statesman and the major study of Balzac he has worked on for years. Now approaching his parents' great age, Pritchett looks at himself: "A bald man, his fattish face supported by a valance of chins. I am seventy, and in my father's phrase, 'I would like a little more.' " Is it too greedy to ask for one more volume of memoirs? -Martha Duffy
...Haskins Laboratories, New York City, and later to M.I.T., where he concentrated on practical gadgets. The one demonstrated last week, the only one to be completed before Dr. Witcher's death last month, is called an Audible Vision Probe. It is about as big as a short, fattish fountain pen, and a thin wire leads from it to an earphone. At one end of the probe is a small lens, and inside is a photocell that is sensitive to differences of light and shade...
Miss America-the average, not the contest-winner-got sized up by a high-ranking U.S. anthropologist, and probably wished she hadn't. How she stacks, according to Dr. Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...