Word: gurus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexual joy were snapped up like so many peanuts at a corner bar. And when John Q. Public wasn't eyeing his calories as instructed by countless handbooks, he was spending more money on outrageously expensive fashions than the entire race of Bedouins since their descent from Ham. Gurus of this 'Me Decade' stressed the gratification of the individual--particularly themselves...
...international attention once again focused on Israel, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman was reminded of some advice that the Israelis often pass on to arriving foreign journalists: "Anything can happen." After reporting this week's cover story, Aikman is convinced. Says he: "In January the local gurus were predicting that the annual inflation rate would reach 200% and the Labor Party would maintain its lead until the June elections. Within a few months, all of the safest predictions were sourly mocked by events themselves." Aikman also marvels at the business-as-usual attitude of the Israelis, despite...
Ravi Shankar, master sitarist, on the dwindling mystique of Indian music: "When the gurus are living this jet set life, it is hard to preserve the old ways...
...weeks before the presidential election, the gurus of public opinion polling were nearly unanimous in their findings. In survey after survey, they agreed that the coming choice between President Jimmy Carter and Challenger Ronald Reagan was "too close to call." A few points at most, they said, separated the two major contenders...
...emulating their cuisine. A pity. For, as Master Chef and Teacher Shizuo Tsuji demonstrates hi Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (Kodansha; $14.95), Japanese food at its best is intrinsically austere, as much a matter of balance-texture, flavors, colors and freshness-as anything else. Not unlike Escoffier and the gurus of nouvelle cuisine, the Japanese chef insists: "Let little seem like much, as long as it is fresh and beautiful." Tsuji, a former journalist with a degree in French literature who trained with some of Europe's greatest chefs, has written more than a cookbook: his 517-page tome...