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...fourth person quoted diet guru Milo Bloom, formerly of "Bloom Country": "Eat less and exercise...
Dolphin swim centers can be traced back to the thinking of scientist turned guru John Lilly. In the 1960s Lilly did serious studies of the dolphin brain, but by the 1980s he was arguing that dolphins relayed extraterrestrial guidance toward a higher consciousness. A parade of Hollywood celebrities, including Kris Kristofferson, Phyllis Diller and Olivia Newton-John, swam with Lilly's captive dolphins in Los Angeles. While few people really believed dolphins were Martians in wet suits, the swims caught on, first with New Agers and then with the general public, as private facilities such as the Dolphin Research Center...
...been called "an iconoclastic genius," "a Superman of Madison Avenue," "a legendary advertising guru." George Lois modestly demurs: he prefers to think of himself as "a semi-legendary advertising guru." Naturally that made him the perfect choice for us. Beginning this month, Lois, the creative director of the New York advertising agency Lois/GGK, has taken charge of communicating TIME's editorial benefits to readers and advertisers across America...
...ghost of Karl Marx was even unhappier than usual last week. In Moscow Alan Greenspan, guru of Republican capitalism and chairman of the Federal Reserve, tutored top Soviet officials in remedial economics. In Hungary the country's ruling party shed its Communist label. And in Caracas ranking socialist leaders of the First and Third Worlds -- President Francois Mitterrand of France, 72, on a tour of Latin America, and President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela, 66 -- agreed on the virtues of the free market...
...then appointed the selfproclaimed guru of free-market economics in Argentina, Alvaro Alsogaray, to be his leading economic adviser. Ignoring the opposition of the telephone unions, Menem gave Alsogaray's daughter the task of privatizing the state-run telephone company that has for years been ridiculed by Argentines, who have a host of horror stories to tell about how tough it is to make routine local calls...