Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some eat such foods for religious reasons, believing that certain items nourish the soul as well as the body. "Eating is a spiritual movement," says one of Erewhon's customers. "It upsets me to see people eating junk. It's just an escape, like drugs or alcohol." Followers of the late George Ohsawa, a Japanese-born philosopher, subscribe to a macrobiotic diet that relies on tea, brown rice, beans and nuts. That program may slight fats. A New Jersey girl who followed it too strictly died of malnutrition, and parents who limit their infants to the guru...
...dancers transformed the alcohol drowsiness of the joint into a steamy, tangled jungle of arms and legs. There wasn't room for much refinement, but that was only a minor hindrance and of little importance. The essence was there...
...teen-age master suggests a stringent life-style for his devotees, devoid of drugs, sex, tobacco and alcohol. In exchange he offers the gift of knowledge designed to open the initiate's "third eye" of inner awareness and thus bring him perpetual peace. Knowledge sessions sometimes last twelve hours or more and are conducted by 2,000 delegated mahatmas throughout the world. "If you can become perfect," the Maharaj Ji told his disciples in Delhi's Ram Lila Grounds last week, "you can see God. That...
...special vocabulary of serious tasters, wines can be "acid" (tart, sour, with the bite of natural fruit acids), "astringent" (puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with...
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: On November 17 at the executive dinner for Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, drank 14 Hoosier specials en route to a record-shattering performance for alcohol consumption. Dake, by his own admission, had little intention of making a bid to shatter the World Hoosier special record, but "I just got to that fifth round, and I couldn't stop. I got to singing the Notro Dame fight song and right in the middle of maitre Jacques I got up and started that famous Notre Dame marching step on top of the tables. I marched from patron...