Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thin Man. If you haven't, you must. It's as tight as the book and moves with a drive which insures that its charm is never static. Everything in this picture seems always to be in mad, advancing motion: elevators, eyebrows martinis--all pushing to the final clinch. The movie looks wonderful, so does everyone in it. When Myrna Loy wrinkles her nose it makes you wait for weeks to see a girl at a party who's got that talent. Nick and Nora Charles, it's repeated often, were modeled on Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. That spirit...
...draws a foreign cigarette from her case, and lights a match. She stretches her long legs across the floor, resting her weight on the tiny pelvis outlined by her jeans. The smoke dances slowly around her soft, beautiful face as she begins to talk about why she is so thin, about her anorexia nervosa...
...extremely skinny--not svelte, but unnaturally thin. She starved herself torturously to achieve and maintain her underweight state. She ignored the hunger pangs in her stomach and she denied to her family and friends that she was hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows...
...skinny young woman has been talking about her anorexia for about two hours, and she's gone through a lot of cigarettes. She said her anorexia was an attention-getting device. Because she was sickly-thin, everyone worried about her, and she had the concerned attention of parents and friends, especially male friends. She says, "You're attracted to men who will take care of you. Once they respond sexually, you find that hateful because they're intruding upon your freedom, so you run. It's very selfish--they want something but you don't want to give anything...
...yards away, another writer was playing a joke on Jane Curtain, an attractive "Saturday Night" actress. The writer had taken a surgical glove and stretched it tightly across the top of a quarter. The coin stuck to the underside of the glove, but the rubber was so thin that the quarter appeared to be sitting upon it. He walked over to Curtain's desk and pressed the top of the quarter, which fell magically to the desk, and the writer walked away giggling, leaving Curtain to try to find a nonexistent hole in the glove. "Stupid trick," Curtain shouted...