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Friends, who had been worried about DeLay's increasing stress and growing girth, say he feels liberated. He just turned 59, and he celebrated by having dinner with his pastor and attending a gala for child advocates, whose cause he has long supported. He plans an aggressive schedule of speeches to promote foster care, the infusion of Christian faith into public life and the election of Republicans to all offices, great and small. DeLay said he has not ruled out becoming a lobbyist, and friends would not be surprised if he went that route. "He has to make a living...
Something has to give, right? The man is 45. His girth is so magisterial that the inevitable Falstaff comparison seems inadequate. All that saffron in the soup--that's where he's showing weakness, I decided. So busy being a star that he's sloppy in the kitchen. To test the theory, back in Chicago I had sneaked into the prep area after Batali had left the crowd standing in applause. I found a cook named Kirsten West who had prepped the ingredients for the demo. "How's the soup?" I asked...
...greeted with a large road sign adorned with a giant red X. It had been painted across a pudgy silhouette drawn to represent the quintessential (American) tourist. So maybe I had the disposable camera, but I certainly didn’t have the Panama hat or middle-aged girth...
DIED. Joseph ("Big Joe") Turner, 74, Kansas City, Mo.-born blues "shouter" of huge girth (300 lbs.) and voice, whose long career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
Guidelines on girth have been the subject of a growing dispute since 1983, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. updated its charts on desirable weight. The poundage associated with the lowest death rates, the insurance firm found, had risen by as much as 14 Ibs. over such weights in its 1959 tables. Now Dr. Reubin Andres, clinical director of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging, has added more fat to the fire. Using the same data (from 4.2 million people charted by 25 insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their...