Word: larding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...E.S.T.)-don't you just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...
...miss the froth, the antics, the viewpoints, the meat (you can cut the letters of us otherwises to the bone with no complaint), and I gag on the lard of the prominents. The prominents have many forums...
...sensitive and charismatic, full-bodied and full of wit--he doesn't have to carry the film. The 21 non-professional kids (all from the Georgia coast) act up a storm. When Voight's Conroy introduces his class to Brahms and Beethoven, or, in an effort to blow the lard from their brains, punctuates his classroom questions with a bike horn, we are gratified not only by the teacher's love and cleverness, but by the responses of his kids--abashed, suspicious, delighted, and finally openhearted...
...News Presents. "You're Too Fat," an examination of lard in America. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
...drawn a whole bag of ploys that persuade the patient to change himself rapidly. For example, a 250-lb. woman says she is "a plain, fat slob." Erickson takes over: "You are not a plain, fat, disgusting slob. You are the fattest, homeliest, most disgustingly horrible bucket of lard I have ever seen, and it is appalling to have to look at you." He continues insulting her-agreeing with her self-image and exaggerating it. The woman reduces to 140 Ibs., finds work as a fashion artist and becomes engaged...