Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whether or not you will see a spectacle. The action, for example, begins with four Beatlesque Tweedledees singing something of a disclaimer on a giant chess board, lit in blue, that rises up into the air and ends bordered by a giant tree stump on the left and a plump mushroom on the right...
...sleep in peace without missing any of the scenery. Guests are well advised to pack carefully: shoes with nonslip soles, much film, a copy of Madame Bovary, binoculars and five fewer pounds than their ideal weight. This is, after all, the province of dense cheeses, Calvados, orchards and plump, happy cows munching the grassy slopes and thinking buttery thoughts...
...baseball mitts and spotted plump puppies,/ Horseshoes that ring and bright smiling yuppies . . ./ These are a few of my favorite things...
...anger came first, but it is not an easy emotion for playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Her natural instinct is to charm, to disarm, to retreat from harm. The nervous giggles, the wispy, high-pitched voice, the ingratiating brown eyes and perhaps even the plump figure all seem protective camouflage. For Wasserstein, self-mocking humor has always been the first line of defense against both the judgment of others and her enveloping Jewish family, which cannot understand why a nice girl like Wendy is not married with children at 38. Even her closest friends sometimes find her hard to take entirely seriously...
...plump man with steady dark eyes and a soft voice, Koskotas is no common embezzler. In addition to the Bank of Crete, he owned Grammi, a flourishing publishing empire that operated five magazines, three newspapers and a radio station. He bankrolled big hotels. A year ago, he bought Greece's wildly popular soccer team, Olympiakos. He created one of the world's most advanced printing plants. And until he fled Greece, Koskotas consorted freely with the country's ruling Socialist leaders. At 34, George Koskotas, the Greek wunderkind, had achieved a dazzling reputation in his own land...