When news broke before the Games that a senior figure at UK Athletics had described the tightly honed Ennis-Hill as "fat", there was national outrage, prompting a sustained focus on female body image, sexism, eating disorders and bullying in sport and launching Ennis-Hill as a figurehead for a growing female movement in sport.
The old general store in Cerro Gordo (which means Fat Hill in Spanish) has been turned into a ramshackle museum, where ancient mining tools, rusty pistols, a sun-bleached wooden tombstone and other artifacts from the pioneers are displayed.
By the end of the hour, I had conquered the bunny hill on my fat skis, which may not impress you but it certainly impressed me, and Stephen was falling on his snowboard only every 50 feet or so instead of every 10.
Past the Main Line, with its lacrosse fields and faux châteaux, past Valley Forge, past Wyeth-brown hills into a fat, prosperous land of sappy-leaved sweet-gum forest humming with cicadas, and high midsummer corn glistening like shaken cellophane.
Along with putting a Crescent City bounce to an old cowboy song, Blueberry Hill, and the groundbreaking Fat Man, Antoine Fats Dominono was definitely a great innovator, and richly deserves a much fatter entry in the history books.
"Mississippi Hill Country Blues" (2000): Fat Possum got on the rerelease train with "Mississippi Hill Country Blues," a compilation made up of three tracks recorded by the folklorist George Mitchell in 1967 and sixteen more that were put down in the early eighties in the Netherlands (they had been available previously only as a European import).
We thought it was fitting given our Winter Hill interest and the fat that we would be out of commission for a while.
Though he didn't take home a particularly fat check, Hill did earn his second Academy Award nomination with his performance in "The Wolf of Wall Street," for supporting actor.
Who knew that cars, license plates, fat ladies, hills and porn could be such Surrealist fun? Gutmann (1905-1998), a Jew who left Germany when the Nazis came to power, took one of his spookiest pictures before he left Berlin in 1933.
Its Turkish name is Göbekli Tepe: "hill with a potbelly," or "fat hill".
