Repeating the address to the Tamilian boy from the shop, he set off with a slow, light step, like a fat man jogging.

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During his lifetime he managed to publish seven novels and do some documentary work for British TV (you can see him in one of them as a Fat Man on a Beach, first broadcast shortly after Johnson killed himself).

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He made hundreds of different cut-outs, like "Man Riding a Donkey" or "Fat Man in a Bathing Suit" and started a mail-order business selling these caricatures, which provided most of his income later in life.

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The North Korean leader is sometimes caricatured as a cognac-swilling gourmet, the one fat man in a country where hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have died from famine.

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To sweeten its takeover, Pirelli proposed that Roberto Colaninno, outgoing boss of Telecom Italia and already a rich man thanks to the fat premium Pirelli paid him for his shares, should get a euro31m handout in lieu of options and other pay.

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He cracks up the audience with his fat man and a camera shtick.

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The fat man filmed her every day for hours at a time, with few breaks, always recording the same scene: the stillness and tedium of the unreal beauty who accompanied him.

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The autopsy video he showed next, of a man being sliced open and relieved of a thick layer of fat, was even more electrifying and repulsive.

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The second man who is wanted for questioning is white, 40 to 50 years old with a fat build and wearing a black jumper and black trousers.

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There was Erasmus Darwin, an enormously fat doctor, Matthew Boulton, a pushy metal-goods manufacturer, and Josiah Wedgwood, the man who turned fine pottery into a commercial goldmine.

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