Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...star is plump and voluptuous Patricia Covich, a freshman from Emerson college who is making her dramatic debut with Brel. She can turn from a light number to give serious pieces like "My Death" or "Sons of ---" more than their native depths. In between she is a bubbly personality who cannot seem to suppress her enjoyment as if it were her first prom, instead of her first job. Rochman's performance was just as powerful if a bit more self-conscious. "Put the best sheets on the bed, Mathilde's come back to me!" he shouts in an exotic number...
...friend, Kitty a girl in and office, who told me that her mother had filed her flat with old newspapers and other treasures she had scavenged and couldn't bear to throw away. I met her once--a plump, stooped-over little woman: It was hard to believe she had ever borne anything so young and vital as Kitty. The mother told me how she had once found and entire box of Lyons tea-cakes--"and not touched, not even opened, mind you"--on her way to visit Kitty. She called Kitty over to attest to how good...
...driver, visiting Washington to testify in a negligence case, gestured toward a plump, smiling woman in the conference room. "Isn't that Mrs. Murphy?" he asked warily. "She put me on the stand in Boston. She smiled sweetly at me and then...
...candidates made their tours not to elicit votes but as a gimmick for the press. On one stop in a paper factory, McGovern's press following outnumbered the employees by about two to one. Not only were the press overwhelming in number but they were not very subtle. One plump middle-aged woman with a "Re-elect the President" button complimented McGovern on his lovely daughter, telling him. "I can't vote for you. I'm voting for the President because I'm a WASP." One member of the press chortled. "Hey, did you hear that? She couldn't vote...
Perhaps not, but he may as well have been. The Administration felt that it had found a plump target in Muskie's peace plan at a time when the President was still trying to get the North Vietnamese to accept his own proposal. The President's men lined up the guns and pulled the lanyards one by one. Republican National Chairman Bob Dole warned that Muskie's speech announcing' his plan "may have greatly damaged the prospects for peace in Viet Nam." Herb Klein, the White House communications director, charged that some of the Democrats "seem...