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Medvedev's description of Brezhnev's funeral rites contains some wondrously macabre details. When the overweight leader's body was placed in its coffin at Moscow's Hall of Trade Unions, the bottom of the shoddily made box collapsed, and the body fell to the floor. A new, metal-reinforced casket was later taken to the burial site on Red Square, where it was supposed to be reverently lowered into an open grave. What actually happened remained unexplained to the millions of Soviet citizens watching the televised interment. The coffin proved too heavy...
...giant insurance company revised its widely used height-weight guidelines, moving them upward by as much as ten to 15 lbs. in the case of short men and women. The news brought sighs of relief from gourmands but cries of alarm from some doctors, who fear that overweight Americans will worry less about trimming down...
...despite some serious flaws, a largely successful undertaking. The huge cast is, with very few exceptions, able and often exceptional. Mitchum, overaged and overweight as he is, is real and rocklike. As the actor says, "Pug sort of functions as a pylon at an air race. Everything revolves around him." Bergen is touching as the flighty, shallow but nonetheless sympathetic Rhoda; Houseman, who has been blessed with a much more amiable character than he usually portrays, is convincing as the civilized survivor of an ancient society who cannot believe that the barbarians have finally broken through the gates; and Vincent...
...that preceded the 1944 Normandy invasion, has done an appropriately heroic job of separating the leader from the legend. Brown had some advantages over his ill-fated predecessors, among them Donovan's private papers and his wife's 65-year diary. The result is a memo-studded, overweight history of the OSS, relieved by tales of counterespionage and by the story of Donovan himself...
Their gravity is not without instances of whimsy. In William Hauptman's "Good Rockin' Tonight," an insurance man gives up his job to become a Presley imitator, convinced that since both he and Elvis are overweight, admire Cadillac Eldorados and like to stay up all night, he is bound for glory. Nicholson Baker's "K. 590" presents a university string quartet attempting to practice Mozart in a hotel "refreshment room" while the landlady vacuums and a pair of teen-age girls ply a soda machine with quarters...