Word: plumpings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baby was born with a stainless-steel spoon in its mouth. It is still there, full of creamed corn, held by Mom, who is plump and pretty. Dad stands slight ly to the rear, a large drink held confidently against an incipient paunch. As gathered by the lens of Bill Owens' cam era, the scene is a family portrait abounding in casual miracles...
Paul Doherty is as big as his brother, a plump priest in a pale yellow Lacoste shirt and white slacks, who is the Digger shifted several degrees in the direction of decency. His speech is the Digger's with the obscenity polished away. Before the Digger puts the bite on, they chat. The Digger admires Paul's Buick, and Paul says he always wanted a Cadillac, and the Digger says Cadillacs are nice...
WHEN Mrs. Mary Brown, a plump, cheerful housewife from Dallas, had her first bout with breast cancer seven years ago, her doctors knew exactly what to do. Following the accepted procedure, they performed a radical mastectomy, removing the affected breast, the underlying muscle tissue and the nearby lymph nodes. Then they subjected her to intensive radiotherapy, hoping that the X-ray bombardment would kill any residual cancer cells. But when cancer recurred at the operation site two years ago, and raised reddish, golf-ball-sized lumps on the flat area where her left breast had been, the doctors were stymied...
...Pine Ridge are outsiders, and we hate people coming in from the outside telling us what to do." What support there is for AIM on the reservation is based largely on hostility to the power held by mixed bloods, of which Council President Wilson is the most prominent. A plump, older woman named White Feather, for example, wants the present council thrown out and replaced by full bloods. Referring to Wilson, she complains that "all the jobs here are held by his relatives, and it's us that need the jobs. He controls everything...
Elaine May shares with John Cassavetes a consuming affection for people, foibles and all. She is superb at discovering little incidents or bits of business that take the taint of caricature off a scene and lend it immediacy: a plump lady, a member of the first wedding party, turning her right hip ever so slightly to edge down the aisle; or Lenny, at the second wedding, grinning briefly in involuntary triumph at the minister. May does tend to stress Lenny's obtuseness, his blind selfishness, rather too much. But The Heartbreak Kid survives its faults; indeed it seems almost...