Word: aptness
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...director of the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center. "Those foods are so beneficial. It's really frustrating." The low-carb diets, they insist, eventually fail. "The more unusual a diet is, the more different from the standard of what people normally eat and find around them, the more apt they are to go off the diet and regain the weight," says Dr. Bruce Zimmerman, a vice president of the American Diabetes Association and an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic...
...dying on her Paris daybed at age 81, Colette, so rarely at a loss for words, spoke her final one. "Regarde!" she said, sweeping her arm through the air. It is hard to imagine a more apt pronouncement, for by the time of her death in 1954, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette had lived, loved, rebelled and certainly seen more than most. And in six decades of writing, she also conveyed what she witnessed to thousands of readers, producing some 80 volumes of fiction, essays, memoirs and drama that made her one of France's most beloved authors...
...name is probably more apt than its director, Arnold Lehman, ever intended. "Sensation" was advertised as liable to "cause shock, vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria and anxiety." Indeed, its contents--most controversial of which are sliced-up animals suspended in formaldehyde and Chris Ofili's painting of the Virgin Mary with a generous helping of dung on her bosom--are not for the knock-kneed...
...truth is that near death, you have visions of what most preoccupies you in life. I am a skeptic to whom the idea that a benign God created us and watches over us is somewhere between a fairy story and a poor joke. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-death experience--the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end, as featured in the memoirs of a score of American K Mart mystics. Jesus must have been busy when my turn came: he didn't show. There...
Lesser Today would be more apt for this retrograde expansion of NBC's franchise morning show. The easy-listening fare--dating younger men, how to "test-drive" a dog--isn't really the problem so much as the tone. The ingratiating host trio makes Rosie O'Donnell sound like a shock jock (co-host Florence Henderson seems grateful to be on TV at all: "Good morning! This is so much fun!"). After The View proved that homebound audiences like a little sass with their coffee and celebs, Later needs a shot of attitude in its cup. Maybe Joy Behar...