Not only does “thick-bodied” not really deserve to be in the opening headline of an Article about a murder and possible polictal conspiracy, I can’t figure out if it’s supposed to be good or bad. If he is calling her fat then that is a really bad picture and even worse gutter journalism. Or maybe it is some kind of poorly created euphanism for ‘Big-ol’-juicy-Booty’, because then it is just shitty writing cause it doesn’t communicate that.
Damn, is it Friday afternoon or what?
Try again
Eh, it’s worse than that – for one, the sentence seems to be saying that her name was a stripper. “Thick-bodied” is not only unnecessary in a opening graf but it’s both unclear (was she fat, muscular, merely solidly built?) and awkward (I’ve never heard someone say that phrase out loud). And I think “arresting” is a poor word choice in crime reporting. So this is a good bad sentence.
Oh, I don’t think that it’s bad. Is it a feature story? It’s a gripping lead, I think. I got an image immediately. I’d read more about an arresting, thick-bodied stripper with ties to politics and power.
What I’m sick of reading is the terrible grammar and singsong prose of television “news” stories, slapped verbatim on the web and passing for stories written by professional journalists.
Thick, as defined by Urban Dictionary.
You just gotta brush up on the ebonics, na mean?
It’s not really the most elegant wording, I’ll admit, but it’s not as amateurish as much of what passes for news reporting nowadays.
I’d have interpreted it as describing a body that wasn’t fat, but that didn’t curve in and out much. More of a cylinder than an hour glass.