Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono reached 400 Ibs. before a recent diet took him down to 350. He played Bette Davis' father in Hush, Hush'. . . Sweet Charlotte when he was 25 and Davis was 55. Now 43, Buono longs for varied roles but tells himself, "In a business of visual types, you are a mountain...
...looks horrified at first, and then a little turned-on, returning to her bed not to inform her husband of what's happening by the fireplace, but instead to make love to him. Later, when he finds out, she sticks up for her little girl. "They're rather sweet, like bats," she says, a little cryptically. "I know it's different, but aren't you happy she finally has someone?" she asks. Finally? The girl is 15. The husband, despite his progressivism, seems to realize this: he quickly downs a slug of orange juice, and soon informs the 17-year...
...anyone afflicted with a sweet tooth, Government rulings in the past decade have been decidedly sour. First the Food & Drug Administration barred cyclamates because they might bring on bladder cancer. Then after saccharin was also linked to bladder cancer, the agency proposed banning that sweetener, an action averted only by an act of Congress. Last week the FDA broke new ground, announcing its approval of a low-calorie sugar substitute called aspartame...
...just figured a way so their young boys could try for some black pussy and so their snotty bitches can look big in front of a whole line of black women. If I had said to you, 'Here, dog, have one of these ham sandwiches and some of this sweet bread,' you would have known right away I was white...
Storytellers, like journalists, have never been much for emphasizing the sweet, the decent, the well behaved. Odysseus, to pluck an early example from Homer, was a wife-neglecting troublemaker if there ever was one. Even in the inspired stories of the Bible, people seldom behave very well, beginning with Adam and Eve and proceeding to Cain and Abel and the folk in Sodom and Gomorrah. Contemporary fictions create their own mischief: Portnoy, for example, spends precious little time collecting for the United Fund...