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...some laboratories continue to regard readings of up to 300 mg as within the normal range. The panel called on the food industry to provide better labeling of the fat content in processed foods, and it urged restaurants to offer lower-fat items on their menus. Public education was seen as vital so that high-risk people can quickly be identified and treated. Said Steinberg: "We hope that five years from now people will say, 'I better go get my cholesterol checked.' " -By Claudia Wallis...
Lebowitz's catalog of boorishnesses is somewhat eclectic: zealous nonsmokers, people who go to work with colds, waiters who introduce themselves before handing out menus. Worst of all, says Lebowitz, who once drove a cab, are cab drivers. Says she: "Manners may be too polite a word. Many cab drivers just seem to be mildly insane. I would rather pay and just let the guy sit in the back while I drive...
...idea that a concern for menus and hair styles can coexist comfortably with knowledge about the national debt and Nicaragua is a new one to many of the women who went to the convention, and the synthesis is as yet imperfect. At the Schlafly party, retired Lieut. General Daniel Graham's book on Star Wars defense systems, We Must Defend America, was a party favor, along with Texas-shaped cakes of soap. The main event of the afternoon was a fashion show in which the models included the wives of James Baker, Jack Kemp and Robert Michel. They were...
...hostess sighs. "I never thought I'd be carrying menus at 35." And then, "What do you think I ought to wear when he comes back to get the money?" -By Jane O'Reilly
...painting grand prize (long since abolished) at the 1964 Biennale, European critics bitterly complained about American influence in the art world. Today, of course, such transatlantic rivalries are ancient history. They have been canceled by a market system based on multinational trading, where conglomerates of dealers sell their menus of American, Italian, German artists to German, Italian, American clients. There is not one American artist under 50 whose work creates the anxiety among discriminating Europeans that Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, or their pop successors...