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Women have been more vulnerable to the disorder because they have been judged by men on how they look since time immemorial, says Honnet. "Now society has gotten even more intense. In the 1960s, there were a lot of plump women in miniskirts, and they managed to feel fine. Over time, as models became more culturally significant, they became icons. We all know their names. Increasingly, movie stars and models embody what women should look like. In the 1950s, women could be curvy and look like Marilyn Monroe. Now there's Jane Fonda [with a fit, muscular-looking body]," says...
...cuts to the wrist and ankle; Manes eventually admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. Soon after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid parking-ticket fines. Queens Attorney Michael Dowd, a collection-agency owner, is reported to have told federal prosecutors that it was Manes who ordered him to pay bribes to Lindenauer to safeguard a lucrative city contract that had netted his firm some $2 million...
...leading ladies, all past Tony winners, than from the melodies and lyrics, which are burdened with cliche-ridden predictability, relentless optimism and, worst, a prevailing sameness. Uggams' torchy numbers seem too much alike because the songs do. Loudon's comedy, almost all based on self-mockery for being plump and presumably over the hill, eventually becomes distasteful. Rivera, who could dance the telephone book entertainingly, more or less does just that in some tired, ordinary routines. For those who like Las Vegas spectaculars or TV variety hours, Girls may prove entertaining. But when compared with the 1977 Side by Side...
...more than 700 remarkable objects. These run from Isaac Oliver's exquisitely realized miniature of three reflective siblings of the Montague family, clad in sober Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks...
They are the artifacts of extravagance, as flawlessly preserved as those in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Five cases of wine with corks seemingly intact. Delicate china plates, wash basins and chamber pots, pristine and unchipped. Plump and elegant luggage that could have been packed yesterday. Seventy-three years after the "unsinkable" Titanic plowed into an iceberg and slowly slipped beneath the waves, the luxury liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship...