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...FEAR OF food and of weight gain is a peculiarly feminine phenomenon. The perpetual eater, whether overweight or not, trembles when she eats-indulges, feels guilty, punishes herself-or, in control, abstains, purifies. A brownie eaten for dessert can ruin an evening. You are ugly ! You are weak. No one will love you. You are fat, she tells the mirror. When will you learn? look at you! The scale measures neuroses as well as pounds...

Author: By Barbara Berney, Karen Miller, and Nancy Osterud, S | Title: Problems Personal | 3/5/1970 | See Source »

...that it is possible that Red China could deploy an intercontinental subterranean earthquake [Dec. 19], he might feel an uncontrollable urge to deploy counter-platforms. That would mean years of costly research to find out the right height for the platforms and the proper intervals for all of us overweight citizens to jump. Then would come debates over whether it would work, whether it would be worth the money, and whether anybody cares. Meanwhile, some Russian-launched earthquake would come along and destroy us all. If you had kept your mouth shut, we could have lived out our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1970 | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...bounces around onstage as a middle-aged New Yorker containing a wastrel screaming to be let out. Mostly he resembles an overweight wrestling coach, or the boy next door who ate too much of too many Sunday dinners. "I come from an old-fashioned Italian family, where we used to sit down for Sunday dinner at 2 and get up at 7." Which explains the 250 lbs. spread over his 5-ft. 10-in. frame. What it does not explain is how a nice, fat Italian boy from The Bronx became an overnight success on Broadway after 22 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Adventures of the Fat Man | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

Steady Dave S?a?lon defeated George Beers, 5-1. in the 190-pound class, and heavyweight Jim Abbott clinched the victory for Harvard by beating massive Bill Hazel, 4-0. Hazel, an imposing figure at 260 pounds, failed to intimidate Abbott. who is overweight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Come From Behind To Down Rugged Wesleyan, 18-16 | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

With these sentiments, Ben Jonson could hang out his shingle in any American city-as a coiffeur. If the adulteries of art take care of a woman's stockings, shoes, nails, gowns, complexion and overweight, her hair these days is just as skillfully composed to look as if it had been dragged through a thornbush backward. Artfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Sweet Neglect | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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