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...happen? How could the health movement, which seemed to be chugging along so energetically, have backfired? There is no shortage of theories. Weight-loss tycoon Jenny Craig blames the news media. "They pushed one diet, then the other," she says. "Now they broadcast that diets don't work." Exercise guru Richard Simmons fingers TV advertising. "It's crazy," he says. "The ads say 'eat, eat, eat!' but show a girl who's so thin she clearly never eats." Julia Child, TV's French chef (no caloric slouch herself), cites sedentary life-styles. "Maybe they're not doing enough...
High in the Himalayas lives the Guru of Low Comedy, surrounded by his tapes of Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields and the brothers Zucker. "Great Master, what is the secret of a hit?" ask Hollywood's best and richest when they are ushered into his presence. "Make 'em laugh," is the inevitable reply, "any damn...
...Order of the Solar Temple. Police did not release other details, including the charges brought against them. One of those being held in the confines of a French slammer is Christian-Marie Le Gall, a doctor who shared a medical office with Luc Jouret, the sect's dead guru who was a practitioner of homeopathy. Swiss officials said that French police were acting in accordance with an international warrant issued after 48 burned bodies of cult members were found in Switzerland. Five others were found dead in Canada.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...First Star Trek convention is held in New York City. Sci-fi guru Isaac Asimov attends...
...brilliant Stolen Moments is an openly contentious album. Most of the songs deal with aids, and each of the tunes pairs rappers with jazz performers -- rapper Guru with Donald Byrd, the spoken-word group the Last Poets with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, Digable Planets with guitarist Wah Wah Watson and trumpeter Lester Bowie. Age is coupled with youth, cool with anger, and the result is music with a caustic beauty...