Word: rotundity
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...Driver," I shouted in the sweaty, rotund man's ear, "This is my stop." He pulled to the curb and I skipped down the steps. The elderly lady and her palette-minded youngster climbed down the stairs behind me. We went our separate ways, they searching for a Teletubbies activity book and me, well, I was waiting for new adventures...
Picture this: you re out clubbing at some popular spring break locale when the rotund football player from USC (who earned his way into the entour-age last night by drinking straight from the pitcher) is shaking his gut like a bowl full of Jello shotsasans shirt. Obviously a Kodak moment, right? Well, before you click the shutter, stop. Stop and think about the poor photo developers who will have to see that...
DIED. STUBBY KAYE, 79, rotund and riotous singer; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Once billed as the "extra padded attraction," Kaye put every pound to showstopping effect as he rocked the boat--and Broadway--in the original Guys and Dolls. He played Nicely-Nicely Johnson onscreen too, as well as a banjo-playing minstrel in the frontier spoof Cat Ballou...
...Albright was only the opening act. Rotund Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, decked out in the striped garb of a Black Sea Navy sailor, was judged a close second for his delegation's hearty performance of "Moscow Nights" ("The Russkies are your friends...."), while a troupe of breakdancing South Korean diplomats easily won the award for "Most Outrageous...
...marches at the head of that insurrection is Laurent Kabila, 56, a short, rotund guerrilla leader who has been battling Mobutu for more than 30 years. Since the early 1970s Kabila has waged a haphazard and by several accounts rather incompetent struggle against Mobutu's government from the jungle highlands around Lake Tanganyika. Although Kabila's Marxist-inspired People's Revolutionary Party received support from the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (Che Guevara once spent several months training with them), the obscure group never amounted to more than a nuisance. But the experience did enable Kabila to forge a valuable...