Word: plumpness
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That faith is nowhere more evident than in the U.S.S.R., which has been beset in recent years with controversial sensitives. One, Ninel Kulagina, was appraised as capable of causing objects to float in midair. As Martin Gardner notes, "She is a pretty, plump, dark-eyed little charlatan who took the stage name of Ninel because it is Lenin spelled backward. She is no more a sensitive than Kreskin, and like that amiable American television humbug, she is basically show biz." Indeed, Ninel has been caught cheating more than once by Soviet Establishment scientists...
...through that miserable night I saw on the ceiling plump Indian women pouring chicha into small plastic glasses...
...hotel in which I was staying towered above the humble buildings of the Indian Quarters. Early one afternoon, I began walking through the narrow streets of the marketplace. Each block had its own special goods on sale. The first street I entered was the grain district. Along both sides plump, dark-faced women, wearing hats that looked like British bowlers, were sitting behind open sacks filled with flours and cereals of all different colors and textures. I wandered through the crowds that moved in a relentless parade up and down the streets. A fat peasant woman, her small son sketching...
...Fontainebleau school in the 16th century, the nude in French art had retained some measure of Gothic proportion- elongated torso, small high breasts - and a distinct aura of remoteness. Boucher's nude was small, full and rounded: a compact little machine à plaisir, borne up like a plump rose on tumultuous puffs of cloud or sprawled, replete with the matter-of-fact enjoyment of her own narcissism, on a tangled day bed. Indeed Louis XV's true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite model, an inhabitant of the Deer Park (as the villa...
HEREIN is the most grotesque sort of debauchery, growing only gradually out of an urbane but decadent sensuality. Gourmet sophisticates become maniacal gluttons; a plump school teacher becomes a ravenous Rubensian voluptuary. The characters are, for the most part, reluctant even to talk about the secret of their gathering--that they have come as suicides. Gradually, their festival of grand cuisine dissolves in a death-charged, sex-charged bacchanal...