Word: plumpness
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...Weird Wonders Inside locked cabinets at the Smithsonian Institution nestle snapshots in stone as vivid as any photograph. There, engraved on slices of ink-black shale, are the myriad inhabitants of a vanished world, from plump Aysheaia prancing on caterpillar-like legs to crafty Ottoia, lurking in a burrow and extending its predatory proboscis. Excavated in the early 1900s from a geological formation in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale, these relics of the earliest animals to appear on earth are now revered as priceless treasures. Yet for half a century after their discovery, the Burgess Shale fossils...
...MOST INTERESTING DECISION IN MODern American politics was made, in the final days, not once and for all but over and over again. On Thursday night Colin Powell was poised to run. All the stars were aligned, the polls plump with support, the money hovering, ready to land. And then there came Newt Gingrich, who slipped away from his handlers and arrived in secret on Powell's doorstep, bearing the flame of the conservative revolution and telling him, in effect...
...modernity and political correctness, the pageant has emphasized the contestants' dedication to social betterment. And they'd better be dedicated; each is required to speak on a do-good theme--a "platform" that will serve as her stump speech should she win the crown. This week's wannabes will plump for such causes as aging with dignity (Miss Hawaii), youth-violence intervention (Maine), alternatives to underage drinking (Nebraska), organ-tissue donation (Texas) and motivating at-risk children through music (Alabama). Miss California will speak in favor of sexual abstinence...
...says Natalie Tolbert, 26, to a friend who has just ordered chicken nuggets, waffle fries, a soft drink and a brownie from an Atlanta fast-food joint. "You're pleasantly plump." More and more Americans are couching their excess in euphemism these days, and they're not necessarily ashamed of it. "Obviously I don't care," says Tolbert, gesturing to her ample figure and equally ample lunch. "I don't care because I find most men I go out with like a woman with some meat on her body...
...even works as a muse while he's playing, the memory of Marais emaciates Madeline. Her line, "I've let myself be destroyed by the memory of you" has acute resonance because she is an emaciated sack of bones. By this time, the elder Marais (Gerard Depardieu) is plump and flashily clad...