Word: zaftig
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...Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah. And in the main event, teaming with Hulk Hogan against the preening Paul ("Mr. Wonderful") Orndorff and the kilted, malefic Rowdy Roddy Piper, is the Hulk's Rocky III co-star...
...selling in the Sears catalog starts with the cover. In 1897 it showed a zaftig young woman with a cornucopia, out of which were flowing a piano, a stove, a sewing machine and other household objects. In 1927 Norman Rockwell did one of his Americana paintings for the cover. In 1966 an 18-year-old model named Cheryl Tiegs captured the spirit of American teenagers. This year she not only is on the cover, but she also has her own line of clothes inside. -By Alexander L. Taylor...
...women want this? Talese spoke to several who think so, but he spends little time on the question. He is more interested, throughout the book, in how women look: "Voluptuous . . . curvesome . . . shapely . . . buxom . . . comely . . . pretty . . . piquant . . . zaftig . . ." Thy Neighbor's Wife is an orgy of adjectives, and both sexes get their share. A peak of sorts is reached when Talese describes the members of the Supreme Court: "Broad-chested, sixty-six-year-old mustachioed Thurgood Marshall . . . tidy, hornrimmed, thin-lipped Harry Blackmun." Much of the book reads as if it has been badly translated: "Some inventive interpretation...
They settle temporarily on the body of a southern California corporate hot shot, Leo Farnsworth, who has just been poisoned by his paranoid wife (played by the zaftig Dyan Cannon) and her lover, Farnsworth's eager-to-please private secretary, (Charles Grodin, the lovable shiksachaser who woos and wins Cybil Shepard in The Heartbreak Kid). Farnsworth turns out to be a particularly loathsome tycoon as he alternately comes under attack from both his adulterous wife and scheming secretary and from enviornmental protection groups protesting his multinational's unsafe and exploitative practices...
...takes a job in a doctor's office. Her co-workers -a working-class white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also...