Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest present-day threat to the movies, thinks Pauline Kael, is television. The movie directors who get their start on TV are too careless of detail and too enamored of closeups. The old movies shown on TV are truncated, miniaturized versions of the real thing. Growing up on a diet of TV, she is convinced, has put college kids in the habit of walking in and out of movies "as if they were providing their own commercial breaks." And no one who walks out of a good movie is a friend of Pauline Kael...
SALZBURG (July 26-Aug. 30). The usual heavy dose of Mozart, seasoned with the three Bs, and occasionally spiced with early 20th century compositions is the diet prepared by such expert chefs as the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic under George Szell, and star soloists...
...only significant similarity to BHT is its antioxidant properties. Harman doubts that his findings can be applied to humans any time soon; for one thing, the chemicals must still be carefully tested on other animals. Yet he is convinced that the addition of similar chemicals to man's diet may eventually be "an acceptable, practical means of significantly increasing his useful life...
...hearts of young America. An opportunistic Senator (Hal Holbrook) gets a law passed that enfranchises 15-year-olds. They elect Jones President, and suddenly, he-and-shedonism is for everyone under 35. Oldsters who have passed that milestone are packed into concentration camps and mind-blown with a steady diet...
...children. He and his wife were divorced a few years ago. "All that hard work, and I wind up a poor man," he says. "The poor family, it wants the same things as the middle-class family. If it can't have them, it causes trouble." Subsisting on a diet of canned food ("I'm not much of a cook"), sandwiches and an occasional dinner with a daughter, he looks forward to social security payments that will begin next year. "I don't like that welfare much," he says, "and I sure don't mind workin'. Besides...