Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physical workout is brisk and tiring. Vivacious Jacki Sorensen, 38, the guru of the trend, who now oversees the 42-state chain of Aerobic Dancing Inc. studios, began the movement in 1971 from a church basement in South Orange, N.J. Says she: "It's a fad gone stir crazy." Indeed, Sorensen's and a host of other programs attract an amazing 6 million participants a month. Says a student at Jon Devlin's Dancercise in New York: "My main reason for coming is my head. If I miss three days, I have to come...
...Beverly Hills Diet is the creation of Californian Judy Mazel, 37, an aspiring actress until she became a nutritional guru. Mazel allows only fruit the first ten days-as much as five pounds of grapes a day-and no meat, poultry or fish until Day 19. Some doctors say the book should be listed under fiction. A leading nutrition expert says, "If you went to a bookstore and bought a history that said the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1827 or World War I began in 1905, you'd be pretty angry." If followed too long, the Beverly...
...debate. Last week many major banks lowered their prime lending rate to 19%%, sending stock prices temporarily higher. Soon thereafter, though, moneymen predicted that interest rates were likely to remain high, or even increase, later in the year and early next year. Joseph Granville, the widely followed stock market guru, predicted that the Dow Jones industrial average would drop another 200 points to 650 or 550 during the next twelve months. Stocks then plunged anew. At the end of the week, the Dow Jones index stood at 824, a decline of 200 since its high this year...
...snappish dog was unnecessary in the days before Garp. But after his smashing success, Irving's 19th century converted red barn became a target for autograph seekers and scraggly youths offering to do odd jobs for a chance to receive Garpian wisdom at the feet of their reluctant guru. In fact, before Irving's rugged head was known to the nation, the author was a Putney person who did advertise...
However, Marvin is innately domestic ("I want a tight-knit family"), and through the agency of a psychiatric guru, Mendel, played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...