Word: rotundity
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...George Armelagos of Emory University calls it the Henry the Eighth syndrome, referring to the corpulent King of England who lived so well off the labor of his peasantry. "Think about how many people had to work to make the King the size that he was," says Armelagos. Being rotund is still a sign of prosperity and prestige in Polynesia and parts of Africa...
...watch the 1993 Academy Awards, and by Tuesday afternoon, those same 1.1 billion will have forgotten who won what award. Last year's best supporting actor, anyone? Exactly. (Gene Hackman, "Unforgiven"). After all, the most memorable portion of last year's presentation was the "Aladdin" medley which featured a rotund Nell Carter, decked out in a green fez and harem pants. charging at small children...
...frame but also of his blustery tales of having worked at various times for the FBI and the CIA. Eckardt, says Crowe, "lives in a world of shadows and trench coats." Also in the class was Saunders, 24, the pastor of a small evangelical congregation in suburban Gresham. Rotund and clean cut, with the zeal of a Boy Scout, Saunders signed up for the course because of his commitment to defending religious freedom...
...direction of Ehud Olmert, the city's new mayor. Five minutes away, shudders of a different sort reverberated through the campaign headquarters of Teddy Kollek as television announcers declared that a "political earthquake" had ended a remarkable career in public service. It is difficult to imagine Jerusalem without the rotund, irascible Kollek, who presided for nearly three decades over a transformation of the Holy City from a somnolent backwater bisected by barbed wire to a modern cosmopolis filled with parks, promenades and one of the biggest shopping malls in the Middle East. Recently, however, the indefatigable octogenarian, renowned...
...queen conspires to fix the suitor competition so that Diana will pick Sir Galahad Lastnight (Skip Sneeringer), a notorious (and rather rotund) womanizer. Galahad agrees to marry Diana and kill her on their wedding night. That way no one will stand between Prettiface and the throne...