Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus moved confusingly up and down a curving marble staircase. Costume Designer Rolf Gerard provided the principal ladies with frothy, subtle-hued dresses scarcely calculated to deliver a message even to the most lickerish-eyed boulevardier. As for Soprano Tebaldi, although she had attempted to follow the heroic Callas diet example ("I lose 25 pound in three year!"), she still bore scant resemblance to a fragile and tuberculous Violetta. But the singing made up for all the production's visual defects. From the richly ornamented outpouring of awakening emotion in the first act to the flexible, bitter-sweet lyricism...
...there were signs that the push forward was stronger than many Japanese had realized. Since occupation's end many conservative groups have been agitating for the revival of Foundation Day. Last week Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party proposed a bill in the current Diet session which would in effect revive Foundation Day. And at Kashihara Shrine near Nara, some 10,000 elderly Japanese streamed through the great wooden-pillared gateway to the inner shrine...
...Many older patients neglect their diets, but where such deficiency used to be treated by suddenly feeding them a rich diet-which often upset their metabolism -doctors have now learned to enrich the diet gradually, add vitamins liberally...
...exchange ideas but to plan a series of projects together that would have been impossible for any one campus to try alone. In the last ten years, the educators had learned an important lesson: the best cure for many of the ills of U.S. higher education is a steady diet of intercampus cooperation...
...since in addition to the motion picture auditorium it houses a ballet school, an art gallery, and a bar--indeed some claim it will soon be possible to live inside the building for an indefinite period, with all one's needs satisfied, although this assumes an almost entirely liquid diet...