Word: overweightness
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...barbs impartially, the impromptu daily tried to keep the delegates honest by running such headlines as GUILTY, GULLIBLE AND STUPID-THE IMAGE OPEC COUNTRIES SHOULD BEWARE OF. As a prod to flabby consciences, the puckish Pan staff set up a scale in the delegates' lounge and encouraged overweight representatives to donate a $3-per-lb. "fat tax" to its antihunger crusade. About $150 was collected -perhaps the most tangible expression of good faith seen in Rome last week...
...revenge against the boxing establishment that had summarily stripped him of his heavyweight title seven years ago for refusing to be drafted. He was fighting the skeptics who rated him a 3-to-1 underdog against Foreman, and the record of recent fights in which, aging and overweight, he had displayed only brief glimpses of his old speed and guile. He was also challenging boxing history; only one other heavyweight, Floyd Patterson, had ever won the championship twice. Finally, Ali, 32, was facing George Foreman, 25, the invincible boxing machine who had won all 40 of his pro bouts...
...been tracking Hurricane Rhoda for almost as long. She was in fact born in the original Mary Tyler Moore pilot show, a zaftig 150-pounder who made everybody grin-everybody except the first preview audience, a group randomly selected by CBS programmers. Those 300 sages found the tough-talking, overweight neighbor "a negative character...
...this score, Betty Ford was a near-ideal patient. She was in otherwise good health and far from overweight. She had not taken any of the hypertension medications that have just been linked with increased risk of breast cancer (see MEDICINE). True, she had not detected the lump in her breast by self-examination, which might have prevented a delay of days or weeks. But when a lump was found in her routine checkup at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, she consented to immediate exploratory surgery, with the all-important proviso that if malignancy was detected, the doctors could remove...
...reason," comes the topper. As a character, Rhoda's ma may be predictable, but good, realistic, almost earthy comedy writing on television is not. Neither is the show's third major character, Rhoda's younger sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). She is sleepy-voiced, sad-eyed and overweight from trying to eat her way out of a mild but chronic depression. In short, like so many characters emerging from the Moore atelier, she is a type we know better from our daily rounds than we do from our nightly viewing: an individual waging a quiet, stubborn struggle...