Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whitehall uses his prosperous kingdom as a military and diplomatic pied-a-terre. Seemingly, Nasser-style socialism should have little appeal for Bahreinis, who boast the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, ten free, modern hospitals, electricity in 95% of their homes. For all his benevolence, however, the plump, diminutive Sheik is an unabashed autocrat who prefers to rule his 182,000 subjects exactly as his ancestors have since 1783, when they drove out the Persians...
Expanding Volume. Ads seduce the eye and ear everywhere in Asia. They blink in neon from signs that share the skyline with Bangkok's temple spires and from plump helium balloons in the skies over Taipei. Billboards in Rangoon hymn a product called "Monkey Brain Tonic." In Thailand, such popular TV shows as Alfred Hitchcock and The Deputy are often interrupted by commercials that run up to 15 minutes, and many of the country's 80 commercial radio stations carry eight-minute plugs-partly because time sells for as little as $1 a minute...
...Rounders is an amiable knuckle-headed western about two lumpish modern cowpokes and their love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse. Howdy (Henry Fonda) and Ben (Glenn Ford) ride the range in a deplorable old Dodge pickup, fleeing the specter of steady jobs. While Fonda broods about the plump divorcee he loved and lost at a dude ranch, Ford dreams of escape to a desert isle "where there ain't no grass, ain't no horses." Then the bronc-busters' skill is challenged by a blaze-faced roan given to bucking, biting and occasional drunkenness...
...Scilly Isles, off the Cornwall coast, all was serene in the cozy bungalow where plump, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Harold Wilson relaxed with his family, now and then paddling a boat in and out of rocky coves. Wilson had good reason for contentment. During his six-month stewardship of Britain he had weathered a series of crises that would have shipwrecked a lesser man and brought down many a stronger government. To the surprise of many, Wilson was still Prime Minister, though he had only four votes to spare - the narrowest margin in this century...
...these days. Fortnight ago at London's Christie's, his son, Titus, brought the second-largest price of any painting ever auctioned (only $64,000 less than the Metropolitan's $2,300,000 Aristotle). Last week, at the rival auction house of Sotheby & Co., his plump wife, Saskia as Minerva, brought $350,000, followed by a stunning study of an old man from the collection of U.S. Tin Plate Magnate William B. Leeds, which was knocked down for $392,000. Titus had given Christie's an alltime auction record of $3,321,581; the two Rembrandts...