Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROTATION DIET, Katahn...
THERE ARE SOME striking similarities between Klass' work and Ellen Gilchrist's Drunk with Love. Both document floundering relationships. Both authors create characters who are obsessed with appearances. Each collection includes a story about a diet. Klass' story, "The Secret Lives of Dieters," traces the disintegration of a relationship throughout a diet. Gilchrist's is bathetic. It opens with a report of the death of JeanAnne Lori Mayfield who ended the last diet she ever undertook by crashing into a doughnut shop, killing two people...
...these victims finds JeanAnne Lori's diary which describes her feelings as she progresses into the final throes of her diet. The story ends with the boy giving a chubby little girl some money to buy ice cream. It's all rather obvious and impossible and not very poignant...
Should it be a crime for her to smoke cigarettes? Should she leave the room if others do? What about drinking beer or diet soda or catching a cold because she callously decided to go outdoors without...
...others are never seen again -- alive. This is obviously not your average Ringling Bros. fool with bulbous nose and orange sideburns. When it shucks off its costume, it resembles a spider. Or a crawling eye. Or a mummy. Its breath is foul, its eyes are mere holes, and its diet consists of human entrees. Pennywise's address is the sewers of Derry, Me., but the monster is only renting there. Its permanent home is a far stranger dwelling: the mind of Stephen Edwin King...