Word: brayings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calorie levels, Katahn explains, ease eater boredom and, more important, prevent the body from significantly slowing the rate at which it burns calories, the stumbling block in most diets. Other diet experts endorse the tactic but think losing three or four pounds a week is excessive. Says Dr. George Bray of the University of Southern California: "That's not a sustainable rate of healthy weight loss." Everyone applauds the diet's psychological appeal, however. Declares Katahn: "It motivates us to be as close to perfect as we can for three weeks." Agrees Housewife Pam Kennedy, who has shed...
When they got loose and interested, on the other hand, they swapped graphic war stories. "That's an exit wound there, by the way," said Ray Bray, a California police official, as he showed off a color picture of a victim from last summer's mass murder at a McDonald...
...exotics, is credited with "discovering" Madonna in 1982, although like America before Columbus, she was there all along. "She had this incredible sense of style," says Kamins. "She had an aura." She also had a four-track demo tape she had made with another boyfriend, a musician named Steve Bray. Kamins played it and got great response from the disco crowd for a song called Everybody. Madonna's career began to gather momentum, and Kamins at one point thought she had agreed to let him produce her first album. Madonna instead chose a professional producer, Reggie Lucas. "At the time...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation code-named it Operation Corkscrew: a four-year, $750,000 Government scam designed to ensnare what were believed to be corrupt judges in the Cleveland Municipal Court. An undercover agent, posing as a car thief, hired Court Bailiff Marvin Bray to offer bribes to judges in exchange for fixing cases. It seemed an effective "sting" when in 1981 six judges were about to be indicted. But it was the FBI that was getting stung. Some of the judges brought to meetings with the undercover agent were impostors, and Bray himself was pocketing the bribe money, totaling...
...keenest chroniclers of the age, Mme. de Sévigné and the Due de Saint-Simon, as well as from the correspondence of the indefatigable Mme. de Maintenon, who left behind 80 volumes of let ters at her death in 1719. Rendered in an unobtrusive translation by Barbara Bray, The King's Way recounts in an elegant pastiche of 17th century prose the inelegant scramble among the monarch's many mistresses for sovereignty in the bedchamber. How did Mme. de Mainte non ultimately snag the Sun King? The motto she adopted tells it all: "I shine only...