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...itself with those ancient complementary and opposite forces yin and yang, into which everything in the world is divided, including food. Sugar and most fruits, for example, tend to be very yin, while meats and eggs tend to be very yang. The trick is to balance one's menus to maintain a 5-to-l proportion of yin to yang. Since brown rice in itself contains this ratio, it is the principal food of the diet...
...beginning to rain, dear?" she asks). The playlet's success depends upon the interaction of the bride's naivete with the sudden, stunned realization of the groom (Terry Kiser) that the price of love may be endless indigestion. His anguish as she innocently plans her next menus (marshmallowed meatballs and poached oysters) is a masterly mixture of suffering and tact. Indeed, Alka-Seltzer commercials have become the standard by which the entire genre is judged...
Discounts and Diamonds. Fringe benefits cushion almost every aspect of a worker's life. Toyota provides free bus transportation to and from work and pays for the gasoline of workers who commute in their own cars. Company cafeterias offer cheap and diverse menus, including the popular hamburger. Rolling clinics visit the factories each day for sick call, and the company maintains a 344-bed hospital with 20 doctors in attendance...
...expended extraordinary energies and time in the bread-and-butter arrangements of travel, menus, audiences, and overnight accommodations due our semi-official guests-all without secretarial help-thus somewhat dulling hours in which we theoretically were to occupy ourselves in thinking great thoughts or uplifting journalism if not our immortal souls. My contribution to these frowned-upon seminars was to provide two men large in contemporary American letters, both of whom happened to be my special old literary heroes. Let us here consider the hazards of such an exercise in modern-day Cambridge, digressing to include arbitrary judgments on Norman...
...exotic Oriental herbs." When done to a spicy turn, you plop into a hydrother-apeutic bath frothing with sesquicar-bonates, lithium chloride, magnesium sulfate, hexachlorophene-everything, presumably, but cyclamates. BELLY BUDGETING. More appetizing recipes are offered in the spa's dietetic dining room. There guests bend over their menus like accountants, busily subtracting a prune whip (40 calories) here and adding a rutabaga julienne (36) there. "Spoof champagne" is served from big icy bottles with popping corks. As your dinner companions chat about "bulging adipose tissue" and "draining metabolic pools," it's reassuring to discover that...