In the starring role, Catherine Malfitano has a huge voice and pours her zaftig frame into a series of blonde-bombshell dresses _ imagine Shelley Winters in a Marilyn Monroe number.
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She was " pushy "; she was " ambitious "; she was " zaftig "; she was " typical Beverly Hills ."
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I knew it was just not going to be believable unless I was that big, " says Macpherson, who gamely agreed to nude scenes showing all of her newly zaftig body.
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In what may have been a defensive move, the Brookline deli Zaftig's headed off the process by giving its name, whose root is a Yiddish adjective, the possessive form.
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Instead of the dragon with the " withered bosom " and dyed hair Williams describes, she comes on like a zaftig siren whose deep tan suggests she's just back from Acapulco.
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"The Joys of Yiddish " was a fat lexicon of expressions _ from alter kocker to zaftig _ that had elbowed their way into ordinary English idioms, endearments, epithets and jokes.
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Still, slightly zaftig lead Sara Rue is great as a pretty and pretty normal-looking-for-TV woman, as are her co-stars ( especially the hilarious Sherri Shepherd ).
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"I don't think anyone is completely comfortable ( doing that ), but I manage to soothe myself in thinking it's a refreshing thing to see someone zaftig naked on film.
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Truman's escapades are intercut with shots of Joe Sixpacks nesting in front of the tube : zaftig ladies on a couch, night watchmen, tipsy bar patrons, a guy bobbing in a bathtub.
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What sights they were, these two birthday gifts to Lyn : Little Vincent of the tortoiseshell fur, with her prim white feet and bib, scrunched down next to Calvin, the zaftig, reclusive calico.
