Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these questions than in Andy's drastic deterioration. Hanks so scrupulously, heroically mimes the wasting wrought by the disease, from chest lesions to a 30-lb. weight loss, that Jonathan Demme's film ultimately becomes a documentary on the ravages of AIDS -- and on the masochistic machismo of Method acting...
...been supportive but wary about gun control, made his first choice. One day after directing the Justice Department to examine the possibility of a national registration and licensing system for handgun owners, he told Attorney General Janet Reno to draw up a detailed plan. One likely model is the method for licensing drivers, in which states operate a system with federal standards. "I think it should be at least as hard to get a license to possess a gun," said Reno, "as it is to drive an automobile." It's a good deal harder than that in some other democratic...
...Galaxie Montignac," is an $11 million-a-year business with a chain of food boutiques, a vineyard producing Chateau Michel Montignac Bordeaux, a mail-order firm selling Montignac foie gras and Montignac chocolate, a quarterly magazine, an Institute of Vitality and Nutrition through which 350 physicians prescribe his method, and a company offering one- day diet seminars for corporate executives at $420 a head. Last October, Montignac opened a 240-seat restaurant near the Paris stock exchange. This month he will act as host of a Caribbean cruise with chef Roger Verge for 150 "gastronomic dieters." The price...
Montignac's method, based on "a synthesis of my scientific readings," strictly limits starches, sweets and alcohol during an initial weight-loss period of several months. Then, in the maintenance phase of the diet, he allows such goodies as red wine, sausage canapes, foie gras, cheese and the occasional chocolate dessert. Whole grains are in. Soft drinks are "poison." Alcoholic aperitifs are discouraged, and wine is to be drunk only with meals...
...recommend a white bean, duck and sausage stew, but Montignac declares that "cassoulet is the noblest of dishes." A dollop of creme fraiche in one's soup does no harm, he argues. No wonder such epicureans as fashion designer Christian Lacroix and chef Bernard Loiseau have embraced the Montignac method. "You are never hungry," says restaurateur Paul Bocuse, who has lost 40 lbs. a la Montignac...