Word: zaftig
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...weekend watchers have been in love with Mary for years. They have been tracking Hurricane Rhoda for almost as long. She was in fact born in the original Mary Tyler Moore pilot show, a zaftig 150-pounder who made everybody grin-everybody except the first preview audience, a group randomly selected by CBS programmers. Those 300 sages found the tough-talking, overweight neighbor "a negative character...
...Dyan Cannon, 35, the zaftig star of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and The Last of Sheila, has decided that she can do as well in Las Vegas as in Hollywood. To tune up for her nightclub debut, she has been working out at home in Malibu Beach on bongo drums, conga drums, a guitar and a piano. Dyan was also belting out a few screams as part of her program of primal therapy. "I've spent the last three or four years worried more about what I feel than my career," she said. The screams also loosen...
...fantasy. Every so often, the movie business feels the need to create a new character-part joke, part sex bomb, seducible, available, palpable-to enliven the daydreams of the American male. The phase is familiar, and Raquel Welch is going through it. "People think of me as some zaftig lady with two stereo nose cones staring everyone in the face," she admits. "The American idea of sex is two outsized mammary glands...