Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sizes, but Mesmera makes everybody feel beautiful," says Monica, a high school teacher. Echoes Suzy Roan, 44, a divorced bartender who teaches belly dancing in a suburb of Anchorage: "It's one of the few dancing arts where it's totally acceptable to be yourself. If you're plump...
...headed for port through the midwinter dusk, there was little about the M.V. Mecca that stood out from the other boats plying the waters off southern Bangladesh. Portworkers and fishermen noted the same squat deckhouse and plump hold that for centuries have sheltered fishermen from the cyclones of the Bay of Bengal. The Mecca had the usual rusted rigging and smoke-blackened stern. And the crew too was like most others working off Chittagong: pure Rohingyas?stocky Muslim refugees from western Burma. Only the thick salt marks high on the Mecca's bow hinted that it was ending a voyage...
...shirts and geegaws galore. At Bloomingdale's, in its 59th Street store and other locations, you will find "Hairspray" boutiques festooned with period clothes, some for full-figured gals. In a Village Voice column, Lynn Yeager noted that there was, "for the first time in memory, a plump mannequin in the window of Bloomie's, with falsies as prominent as Harvey Fierstein...
...Amber soon finds she has a rival: Tracy Turnblad, who is plump, perky and, pound for bouffanted pound, the snappiest Caucasian dancer in town. Soon this out-of-nowhere "hairhopper" (someone who defines her personality by the startling size and shape of her 'do) is outshining Amber on TV, modeling dresses for a full-figure salon called the Hefty Hideaway and causing a rumpus by insisting that black teenagers be allowed to dance along with whites on Corny's show. Till now African-Americans have been offered only a once-a-month "Negro Day," totally segregated - a token...
...California Fig Advisory Board. Chefs love figs, which are in peak season right now, because they work equally well in sweet and savory dishes, including salad, risotto and ice cream. There are hundreds of varieties, ranging from purple-black to almost white. When buying figs, look for plump ones that feel heavy in the hand, tender but not mushy. They're very perishable and should be used soon after you get them home, but they can last in the refrigerator for three days...