Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Certainly, many people have an overly simplistic view of the relationship between diet and heart disease. Observes Dr. Allan Brett, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School: "Some patients have been led to believe that lowering cholesterol is like magic: eat a bowl of oat bran, and you're cured. For most, that's not true...
...world" puzzled many prosperous West Europeans. Though still much admired, America, with its violent streets, racial tensions, drug addiction and homelessness, is no longer the beckoning place it once was. Says Jean Manuel Bourgois, vice president of Groupe de la Cite, France's second largest publishing house: "The magic of the American dream has gone. Today Europeans find less to envy in America...
...CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on earth...
Sure, Kertes mentioned Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, but not once did he talk about Michael Jordan, perhaps the star primarily responsible for turning the NBA into a marketing bonanza...
...excitement the Stones seem to generate. "You can plan where people should stand, what they should wear and which kind of background to use," she notes, "but you can't plan them." She didn't need to. Long before the session was over, TIME had caught that old Stones magic...