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Sitting on one of the living room couches in front of a refreshments table loaded with a variety of low-calorie drinks (Aquafina, Schweppes, and Diet Coke), Whitman theorizes that the atmosphere has a lot to do with the clothes’ appeal. The customers, she says, “are walking in from the library, feeling drab and dumpy.” Posing in silk charmeuse cocktail dresses before the mirror and their friends, they become new people. “You know how it is when you put high heels on,” Whitman says...
Goehrend's theory can be put to the test at Boule in Los Angeles, where bite-size pastries offer big rewards. While diet consciousness is far from Michelle Myers' mind, the pastry chef and candymaker has modeled her artful patisserie after the neighborhood versions she visited in Paris during her tenure at Le Cordon Bleu. But specialty sugars have added a whole new dimension to her baking. There are little gems, such as her dainty financier cake made with pineapple muscovado jam; brioche that sparkles with demerara sugar; and kouing-aman, a buttery, caramelized cinnamon-flake pastry...
...ENFORCER ABOUT HIS DIET? Sure--like, I suppose, every spouse in America. But he generally does a pretty good...
Bloggers felt blue last week after the Smurf village was bombed in a TV spot for the Belgian branch of U.N. children's agency UNICEF. The ad, meant to highlight the toll of war on children, had STEADY DIET OF NOTHING waxing philosmurfical: "It has garnered more interest than actual dead human beings. Smurfs don't get bombed every day, I guess." THE 10 OF CLUBS praised the attack, which kills Smurfette, as a "brilliant practical application of psychology" to jar today's jaded world out of complacency. And ERIK'S RAMBLINGS warned of more carnage, imagining a PETA...
...interdisciplinary project. Speaking of a project involving the study of ancient Roman teeth, McCormick said, “We’re planning on bringing together historians, economists, archaeologists, natural scientists, and bone specialists.” He said they plan on studying the ancient Romans’ diet, health, DNA, and the diseases they may have suffered. John J. Herrmann, Jr., curator of classical art, emeritus, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, wrote in an e-mail that he admired McCormick’s enthusiasm and innovation in the field.“His efforts to focus...