Word: girth
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...newly diminished body, his slender arms and gaunt cheeks belie his exuberance. He doesn't look like he has been eating much. This gentle incarceration in the Veteran's Hospital has reduced even his hunger. It is as if his girth has shrunk to fit his confinement. His aching knees give him the peg-legged gait of an ageing cowboy who has been riding too long. He looks out at the world through bloodshot eyes...
...GIRTH OF A NATION Like their plump parents, American children are growing fatter at an alarming rate. According to the latest results of an ongoing study, the problem is particularly acute among black and Hispanic kids. More than 20% of them are overweight today, double the rate of 12 years ago. Among white kids, the rate jumped 50%, from 8% to 12%. The most likely culprits: too many soft drinks, too much fast food, too much time spent sitting in front of televisions and computers and too little exercise...
...bathtub, a fine piece of iron work itself, appears not to have been constructed for the use of a sole bather, but is rather a bathtub built for two. With a depth of nearly three feet and a girth of two, we can only imagine what the Puritanical inhabitants of Cambridge were practicing in this space. Looming above the tub, is a bizarre 25 spout water dispersal array which appears to have served as the shower head. Anachronistically placed among this grandeur is a garish post-modern emblem of mass production—a Scott’s hand towel...
...record heat for free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees]F, the actors could at least retreat to air-conditioned dressing rooms between scenes. The audience happily endured it all, giving the performers standing ovations...
...Forward we go, we lovers of early rock, into the past. And most of the young Philadelphians are still around: perhaps thinner of hair, thicker of girth, but pushing the same goods. Last I checked, Hy Lit, Bill Wright and Jerry Blavat were on the radio in my home town, moving the mandible, playing the oldies, reminding us and themselves of a time when rock 'n roll was even younger than we were, and held even more promise and threat...