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...have caused terrific loss to many of your fellow Americans," said the judge. The defendant, Anthony ("Tino") De Angelis, folded his hands over his paunch and shifted nervously from foot to foot. He had pleaded guilty to four federal counts of fraud and conspiracy, and last week in a Newark courtroom, the time had come for sentencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Man Who Fooled Everybody | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

After that crisis, Wife amiably describes how a fighting-trim bachelor becomes a fat, happy benedict. Lemmon's lady smothers him with love and stuffs him with pasta until he has rings under his eyes and a bulge over his belt. Dragging his paunch through the men's-club swimming pool, he makes the mere act of floating seem a wry comment on the leaden responsibilities of marriage. Even Bash Brannigan evolves into a folksy domestic series called The Brannigans. Finally, Lemmon rebels. Both he and Bash decide to dispose of their mates by dumping them (Brrrp! Blasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Homicidal Bash | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

When the International Executive Service Corps was organized last June as a sort of executives' Peace Corps, wits immediately dubbed it the "Paunch Corps." Last week the paunch began to show some punch. Elected formally to the $50,000-a-year full-time President's post that he has filled unofficially for five months: Frank Pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: An Executive Peace Corps | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...quietly sincere in person, assumes an unfortunate nasal and metallic quality over a microphone. Nor do still pictures convey the vitality of his light-footed boxer's carriage, as he energetically shifts his weight from foot to foot, walks along briskly, claps his hands, or brushes a reporter's paunch playfully with his fist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Bellotti and Old Style Politicking | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Sweat. But ordinary laymen need no equipment at all-and precious little time. They may even resculpture their bodies while doing something else without attracting undue attention. To take one inch to three inches off the paunch in a mere month: 1) inhale deeply, pushing out the abdomen as far as possible and holding it there one second; 2) exhale, pull the abdomen in as far as it will go and hold it there for six seconds; 3) repeat six times a day in any position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Without Moving a Muscle | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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