Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything else Phil Donahue's guests tell her she should be. Of course, nobody really appreciates or notices Pat, until she begins to shrink and becomes an instant celebrity, with her own fan club and an appearance on the Mike Douglas Show. (Yes, Mike is on hand, middle-aged paunch and all, singing "little things mean a lot." There's a delicious sadistic joy in watching Douglas make an utter ass of himself and wondering if he knows the meaning of self-parody...
...running guard for Ohio State, dismisses the poll as a lot of crap. The purple-and-yellow tie with the silver sheen ripples as Ujhelyi conducts an experiment to see just how far he can lean back in his chair and still see the visitor over the paunch. Each word is an effort, a patented statement issued forth from the right side of his mouth. The left seems almost hermetically sealed...