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Janice's painfully thin frame finally caught the attention to her parents, who ordered her to start eating. "My dad made me sit down and eat a half-gallon of ice cream in front of him," Janice recalls. The pounds piled on, and soon she was much heavier than when she had started dieting. Like some anorectics, Janice then started trying to make herself throw up after food binges. "I drank mustard powder mixed with water because it burns your stomach," she remembers, adding, "Now just the thought of mustard makes me sick," Janice also experimented with laxatives but developed...
...broadcast in a nearby auditorium, as well as live-television viewers in Germany, Austria and Spain-saw and heard him struggle unsuccessfully against the vocally ungrateful requirements of Radames. Not content with being the world's foremost lyric tenor, Pavarotti in recent years has been moving into the heavier spin to repertory, forsaking the Lord Arthur Talbots and Tonios of Bellini and Donizetti for roles that call for weightier, more declamatory singing-Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, for example, and Riccardo in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In doing so, however, Pavarotti has sacrificed much...
...Zorinsky saying: "I'm going back to my office to be by myself and do some soul searching." When reminded by a reporter on the way out that he had once said that Reagan could sell ice to Eskimos, he joked: "I'm thinking about putting a heavier coat on." As Zorinsky sat in his office, he received a phone call from a rabbi in his home state. Outside a sound truck was blaring: "Vote American. Vote for AWACS." In the end, he went with the President...
...have increased the percentage of women and minorities in many segments of the labor force. But the Administration now seems to believe that voluntary action by business will eliminate the discrimination that remains. If it carries through with its plans, the Reagan Administration will be putting on itself a heavier burden of proof than any that it lifts from the backs of employers...
...battle was primarily between the President and the controllers, the general public was a much involved third party. An unsettling question formed in millions of minds: Just how safe are the skies when substitute controllers?and, eventually, military specialists unfamiliar with generally heavier civilian air traffic?are manning the towers and scopes? In addition, how long could the supervisors stand the strain...