Word: center
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes). But this is just a guideline: once a drug has been approved, doctors can prescribe it any way they want. And given Americans' obsession with getting slim, the demand could be enormous. "The reality," says Dr. Steven Heymsfield, deputy director of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, "is that millions of people who have tried everything else and are frustrated with their weight will walk into their physician's office and say, 'I want Xenical...
That's one reason orlistat users are supposed to change their eating habits. If someone takes it without also switching to a low-fat diet, says Dr. Michael Hamilton, director of Duke University's Diet and Fitness Center, "that person is going to have a rude awakening...
...private hours, your parents will imagine you as a wife, a mother, an actress in the movies or at the village playhouse. For myself, I see you married--as my own daughter was married a year ago--in a church ceremony the antipode of the one you were the center of last week...
When Esme, the celebrated stage actress at the center of David Hare's play Amy's View, agrees to appear on her son-in-law Dominic's TV talk show, the topic he wants to discuss is whether theater is dead. There's no doubt where Dominic stands. Theater is so old fashioned, he complains, so slow moving: "Why don't we admit it? It's been superseded. It had its moment, but its moment is gone...
...misalliance with Titania, the fairy queen (Michelle Pfeiffer), is played with a certain sexy intensity. But the human lovers (who include Calista Flockhart as the comically obsessed Helena), muddled by the carelessness of Stanley Tucci's smug Puck with his love potions, don't achieve firm definition. Lacking the center of concern they might provide, this version of the play becomes a collection of well-loved scenes: dutiful but mostly unmagical...