Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price: $500,000) in the works, and are negotiating a contract to build 200 for the U.S. market. The crated pieces can transform a Laundromat into a passable pub in ten days. Most popular are the Tudor-style pubs, which feature white walls, oak beams (hollowed to save shipping weight), and wrought-iron fixtures. But they can also be had in Regency (striped wallpaper, glass chandeliers) and Victorian (crimson drapes, gaslights) styles...
That leaves Neely O'Hara, the vaudeville brat who becomes a star and then an alienated pillravaged monster who can't keep her weight down or her ratings up. Poor Neely gets shipped from The Head (of the studio) to the headshrinker to the loony bin and back again so many times you could call her the comeback kid a la Judy Garland...
Experience has brought what may be a better judgment: it is simply not in the perceived self-interest of those in vested seats of power to think and act in terms that will alter their power relationships with those who do not have power... the whole weight of their perceived self-interest militates against basically creative thrusts of mind and will, however much the heart may reach out for those who are less fortunate in that they have no power...
Moving lithely (her weight down to 96 Ibs.) to stage center, Judy opens with I Feel a Song Coming On. In the lower registers, at least, she still has the old belting power. "My, I'm a loud lady," she says, striking the well-known hands-on-hips pose. "No crooner, I." Next is Almost Like Being in Love. Then The Trolley Song, and by now the fans are clanging time with their feet. For Me and My Gal turns into a community sing. She wonders: "What should I do now?" Man in the mezzanine: "Just stand there." Judy...
...addition to physcial inactivity, he lisetd other probabl ecauses of heart disease: a high-fat diet, too much weight, excessive cigarette smoking and coffee intake, and too little sleep...