Word: plumpness
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...bestowing an illusory third dimension to flat, featureless walls and ceilings. Known as trompe l'oeil (fool the eye), the style reached its prime in the Renaissance and during the Baroque period, when painters embellished churches and palaces with imaginary soaring columns, weighty domes and clouded skies inhabited by plump putti...
Ernie had it all figured out. The cheeky Sesame Street cutup was out angling, but there were no tugs on the little Muppet's line. So he began to bellow, "Heeere, fishy, fishy, fishy," and sure enough, big plump ones began zooming into his rowboat with a satisfying aerodynamic whistle...
This dinner, with its plump pheasant, understated Bordeaux and unobtrusive help from the Top-One School of Butlers, has been planned to the last detail by the city's most charming couple, American painter Hurley Reed and his companion, Chris Donovan. One guest, a genealogist who resists the temptation to find distinguished ancestors for rich people, is so obliging at parties that he can be put "next to a tree and he will talk to it." Another, a television-documen tary producer, temporarily quiets the victim of a recent crime with her theory that all human beings exist psychologically...
...incumbents nothing is so damaging as being linked with the S&L scandal. Republican campaign tacticians in particular reasoned that some House Democrats would be vulnerable because of their ties to the scandal-plagued industry. One plump target: Chicago's Frank Annunzio, who had two relatives on the payroll of an S&L lobbying group, took campaign donations from S&L PACs and promoted legislation sought by the industry. His Republican opponent, state senator Walter Dudycz, seemed capable of making a strong challenge. Then Dudycz ran into an ethics problem: the accusation that he had double dipped by taking...
...leader continues to interest Rabbit, who later, in the hospital after an angioplasty on his clogged arteries, tries to imagine life after his death and fails. He cannot shake the impression that his hometown "and all the world beyond are just frills on himself, like the lace around a plump satin valentine, himself the heart of the universe, like the Dalai Lama...