Word: girth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is also a distinctly contem porary aspect to back trouble. As people grow more and more sedentary in an increasingly automated world - doing most work sitting down, adding extra pounds of girth - their backs become ever more vulnerable to injury. Ex plains Dr. Kenneth Casey, a pain specialist at the University of Michigan: "Low-back pain is largely a social problem. It's as much due to the way we live as anything else...
...number of satellite characters keep orbiting Ignatius' girth. There is Burma Jones, a young black who has to take a low-paying job at a Bourbon Street strip joint or be arrested for vagrancy. As a sidewalk shill for the acts inside, Jones seeks his revenge: "Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage." Then there is Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself...
...virtually an arrested adolescent. It also camouflaged facts that Hitchcock judged inimical to commercial success: that he took himself seriously as an artist, and that almost all of his work addressed itself, metaphorically, to the most sober existential questions. To use a clich?ppropriate to a man of his girth, he was determined to eat his cake and have...