Word: embonpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider Henry Kissinger. Understandably, Citizen K's style has changed perceptibly from that of the shuttle diplomat. To be sure, he jets by choice these days to Mexico rather than the Middle East, and has trimmed the embonpoint. Nonetheless, says an old Washington pal, "Henry's still doing the same things-it's just that he's paying for most of them...
...claim that collectively they shed 1,500 tons of fat a year. In West Germany, a ten-year-old Schlankheits-welle, or slimming wave, has helped cut annual per capita consumption of potatoes from 109 kilos to 92 kilos. Even in France, there has been a notable move by embonpoint watchers from the sauce-rich grande cuisine to simpler, lower-calorie meals. Throughout Europe these days, all too solid citizens refer to the latest weight-paring magazines and diets in the awed terms once reserved for three-star restaurants. They seem to have reached polysaturation point...
...yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly becoming as much a part of American life as organic apple...