Word: rotundity
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...week, but the decision to stress a new spirit of cooperation apparently did not reach the White House guards. When Tip O'Neill appeared at the Executive mansion on the day of the speech for a conference with the President, the gatekeepers would not let him in. The rotund, white-maned Speaker of the House had to fish around for some identification. O'Neill handled the unintentional rebuff amiably enough, but once he got inside, his Irish was up over an entirely different matter. The Democratic congressional leader vigorously berated the President for deceiving him, and the American...
...TENSIONS CREATED in the beginning are quite riveting, the result of some fine acting. Nicole Gallant brings a complex pathos to the role of disturbed, pitiful Monique; Elizabeth Marek is refreshingly brassy and carnivorous as the rotund Denise; and Eve Kahn, in hair curlers and a ratty blue bathrobe, makes a comic Aunt Charlotte, mugging as if she were in a French-Canadian farce...
...unfamiliarity of the sources he adroitly quotes. How many people in America have heard of, let alone seen, the work of Ottone Rosai (1895-1957), a Florentine painter whose roly-poly figures were part of a conservative reaction against Italian futurism in the 1920s? Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface...
Wilson gives glimpses of his own bed. Although rotund and stodgy, he never lacked for lovers. He had a reputation as a philanderer. In 1946 he married his fourth and last wife, the aristocratic European beauty Elena Mumm Thornton. Somber, itemized accounts of their love-making suggest that Wilson paid inordinate attention to her feet. "Folded together [her toes] looked so fine and white," he noted. "Sensual pleasures of holding the insteps and kissing the toes at their base...
Some famous advertising figures, of course, have so far escaped the fitness fad. The jolly old Quaker of Quaker Oats is as rotund today as when his paunchy figure first appeared...