Word: rotundly
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...give the opinion page some leeway since it’s the one spot where pontification is to be expected. But the soapbox shouldn’t be an invitation for the patently ridiculous. A post-election political cartoon featured an obese Ted Kennedy asking an equally rotund Michael Moore “Are we twins?” while a caricatured Jesse Jackson goes off on a nonsensical diatribe/rap about black oppression...
...rotund 12-year-old with a stud earring comes up to me and asks if I’ve ever ridden before. I say no and his eyes grow wide. “You nervous?” “Yes,” I say, and tell him I’m doing it just to piss off my parents. He looks at me quizzically. “Don’t you like your parents?” I smile and wait for him to go away...
DIED. FRED BERRY, 52, rotund actor who plotted perennially goofy schemes as Rerun on the 1970s sitcom What's Happening; apparently of natural causes; in Los Angeles. After a battle with drugs, he became a minister in Madison...
...DIED. BUDDY HACKETT, 78, film funnyman who parlayed rotund homeliness into starring roles in The Music Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; in Malibu, California. In his later years, Hackett was rarely off the nightclub circuit but got occasional film parts, most notably as the voice of Scuttle the seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid...
...show-biz dreams. "There are some actors and actresses who have waited here, and every night they're Ethel Merman, playing to the cameras," says Rocco's maitre d', Alex Corrado. "I just try to be myself." It doesn't hurt that Corrado's self happens to be a rotund, New Jersey--accented Italian-American actor (he was eaten by wild boars in Hannibal) who earlier in the evening was singing opera in front of the restaurant. Says Burnett: "This cast would do great on Survivor, as far as dramatic television." Some of the customers are also cast members: they...