Word: overweightness
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Guerra complains jokingly of the teasing he received for being a little overweight in September. His most popular nickname was "Michelin...
...standard celebrity moral of too much work, too many indulgences, too little time. For those moviegoers who had seen the Bavarian-born director at film festivals or spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very model of a pestilential dandy, a sure bet for early burnout...
...pills' poppers, however, are more concerned about the social unacceptability of being overweight. They have bought millions of dollars' worth of the new product at up to $10.95 for a bottle of 30, and many come back for more because they do lose weight. Melva Williams, president of Melva Natural Products, a health-food wholesaler in Worth, III, says she has lost 10 Ibs. with the help of starch blockers, without getting sick and without reducing her caloric intake. "It started working with me almost immediately," she claims. "Each tablet inhibits the digestion of 150 grams of starch...
...smaller roles, Richard Grusin and Shirley Wilber also deliver telling, pungent performances. Seen most recently as Zoditch in the A.R.T. production of Journey of the Fifth Horse. Grusin demonstrates here his ability to play a balding, affected, overweight Hollywood producer as well as a sour old reader in a 19th-century Russian publishing house. As the mother, Wilbur is appropriately fussy and matronly: Her high nasal whine sounds very good...
...guided missile control system designed to allow the plane to attack the enemy in darkness and bad weather. Critics question the value of such sophisticated radar, leaving aside its cost, because its use can alert the enemy and spoil any element of surprise. In addition, the Hornet is now overweight by about 1,500 lbs. and has problems accelerating and maneuvering...