Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Verbal-insult trading is admittedly not a viable option. Hillary Clinton may think a certain Congressman whose name rhymes with "thin witch" is a bastard or an s.o.b., but neither appellation has anything like the force of bitch. The meanest things you can say about a man boil down to attacks on a woman: the mother insult, implying subhuman status and moralsand men can experience its sting only indirectly, at a generation's remove...
...prejudice and promote class warfare. They are fostering an "us vs. them" division between "normal Americans" (the middle class) and the "parasites" (the poor), while the wealthiest quietly continues to amass a greater share of the economic pie. The American principles they claim to support are but a thin veneer for their ugly intentions...
...tycoon Jenny Craig blames the news media. "They pushed one diet, then the other," she says. "Now they broadcast that diets don't work." Exercise guru Richard Simmons fingers TV advertising. "It's crazy," he says. "The ads say 'eat, eat, eat!' but show a girl who's so thin she clearly never eats." Julia Child, TV's French chef (no caloric slouch herself), cites sedentary life-styles. "Maybe they're not doing enough in the way of activity," she speculates. "Maybe they don't have jobs. Maybe they're not doing anything but sitting around eating...
...like the last recession (and, for that matter, the economic recovery), America's new heft is not evenly distributed. The bone-thin models in the fashion ads seem to live only in slivers of the U.S. along the two coasts -- primarily in New York City and Los Angeles. The people in the country's midsection, points out Dr. Michael Jensen, who treats obese people at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, tend to be beefier. "There's a lot less social pressure to maintain a lean weight in the Midwest," he says...
...woman can be too rich or too thin," goes the old saying. Pity, then, America's underclasses, who are not only poor but heavy -- or at least they have been since 1965, when a landmark study showed that the rate of obesity among the lowest economic brackets was five times as great as among the highest...