Word: chats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recipes are offered in the spa's dietetic dining room. There guests bend over their menus like accountants, busily subtracting a prune whip (40 calories) here and adding a rutabaga julienne (36) there. "Spoof champagne" is served from big icy bottles with popping corks. As your dinner companions chat about "bulging adipose tissue" and "draining metabolic pools," it's reassuring to discover that you are only sipping carbonated water with grape flavoring. Afterward, resisting an urge to drink the finger bowl, you wait like an addict for a "people bag" with a tiny apple inside...
...prepared for publication by music scholars in East Berlin. They are known as Beethoven's "Conversation Notebooks." To judge from a wide sampling shown TIME'S Bonn Correspondent Peter Range, reading the notebooks is like sitting down with the master and his friends and listening to them chat. Says George Marek, author of a massive recent Beethoven life:* "The notebooks give us the picture of Beethoven the real man. They tell us why he was displeased with his publishers, what books he wanted to buy, even about his indigestion...
...group of Boston University hockey players were gathered at the Dugout, the local campus tavern, last weekend to chat about prospects for tonight's Beanpot Tournament, when the subject of Harvard's performance Saturday night came...