Word: plumpness
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...worry. That peculiar odor you have been noticing in the morning is not burning toast. It is the smell of panic -- plump and juicy egos sizzling on a very hot griddle -- at NBC's Today show. Since the end of December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as co-host, ratings have not merely dropped; they have gone into free fall, a dizzying decline of nearly 25% that translates into approximately 920,000 lost households. The No. 1 morning program only five months ago, Today is now a distant No. 2, far behind ABC's Good Morning America...
...Pakistani studio has produced a movie that features three mujahedin setting out on a Rambo-style trek to kill the offending author of The Satanic Verses. In his celluloid incarnation, Rushdie is depicted as a boozy member of a Jewish cabal who lives in a luxurious palace surrounded by plump Punjabi bimbos and who likes to torture Muslims. The film, International Guerrillas, is doing boffo business in Pakistan, and its producers are negotiating to show the movie in -- of course -- Iran. Meanwhile, the man who plays Rushdie is getting a lesson in method acting: his portrayal of the author...
...first she gave little hint of her unique hold on the camera. In early publicity films she giggles and models dresses or gorges on a cream puff. There is no beauty here, no acting ability. What could Mauritz Stiller, the pioneer Swedish director, have seen in this plump teenager? Maybe the future of movies. He changed her name to Garbo, cast her as the young female lead in his The Story of Gosta Berling (1924), then brought her along to Hollywood. The rest of their story is too trite and tragic for even a Garbo vehicle. Stiller was fired from...
...single gang like Kavera's claims to hit as many as 30 tourists a day during the peak season, when the sidewalks and beaches are plump with prey. Kavera happily recalls the cameras lying on towels, the bags left unattended. "Tourists can be so stupid," he muses. In January, 26 guests, including Americans, Danes, Austrians and Spaniards, went on a hunger strike at a Copacabana hotel to protest the management's refusal to reimburse them for valuables stolen from 50 of the hotel's 94 safes. "There is no question that crime in Rio, especially violent crime, is increasing," says...
...sidewalks and beaches of the Brazilian city are usually plump with thieves' prey at festival time. But grim and mounting homicides and robberies are making it hard to sell...