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...week, as reports came out heralding important gains in industrial production, personal income, auto sales and housing, many businessmen and economists were no longer taking seriously the old textbook notion that a modern economy can scarcely expect three consecutive years of record auto production, or four straight years of plump times. Said Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller: "The expansion should continue well into...
...Mitchum thinks that justice must stand "apart from power and apart from might." All he has to do is locate the army psychiatrist who was shipped off to the bush because he wrote a medical report diagnosing Wynn's insanity. While looking, Mitchum consorts with France Nuyen, a plump little Eurasian nurse whose instinct for fair play seems limitless. "If you want to put your conscience on my pillow," she purrs, "it's all right with...
Roger Micheldene is a plump package of just about everything Americans find detestable in a U-type Englishman. He is expensively accented (Oxford), twice married, with a modest homosexual past, a nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely...
...battle of the bulge. Plump matrons tried to slither into snugly-fitting skirts. Grandmothers preened themselves before the mirrors as they donned dresses more suitable for their pregnant daughters-in-law. There were trades and fights as customers grabbed different ends of the same dress...
...face had a pouting innocence, but seemed too small for her long body. Her small blue eyes were cold and sandbagged with mascara. The spotlight glare was hard on her, emphasizing the coarse redness of her plump arms...