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Enough of Atkins, Stillman and Scarsdale. It may be that the Boring Diet works as well-or better. Scientists have long reasoned that if good taste and smell can increase appetite, terrible taste and odor, or one flavor eaten over and over, should be boring enough to decrease it. Last week, at an international conference on "The Determination of Behavior by Chemical Stimuli," a pair of biologists reported findings suggesting that any tedious diet helps weight loss. If it were possible to eat one food all the time, according to Israeli Nutritional Biochemist Michael Nairn, all but the genetically obese...
...state of California gave the medfly. If you're really unfortunate, and the Conn bears catch you doing more than 65 mph, your best bet is to be super polite. Otherwise, they're capable of taking away your license, and depending on the circumstances--such as the odor of your breath--throwing you into the pokey...
...screenwriter actually knew how real writers talk, this might have been one of the best portrayals of a working artist ever placed onscreen. There is also a scene in which for no special reason-except to open a closet door and let in a truly strong odor of the misogyny that lightly scents much of the film-Liz succumbs humiliatingly to a gigolo. It does not suit either o: the picture's contrasting modes, and should have been excised...
Much of the evening is monstrously funny, but there is an odor of acrid black comedy to it, possibly because Foreman views Don Juan as "a radical with no place to go" in a corrupt society. Molière's Don Juan is radical only in his supreme egoism. He is a law unto himself, a one-man Fifth Estate. He is as cool a rationalist as he is hot a hedonist...
Begin's justifications for the raid might have been more convincing if a persistent odor of electioneering had not clung to some of his other actions. The day after Begin's press conference, an ugly spate of name-calling erupted between the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Peres. Reason: Begin had given the Israeli Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee a copy of Peres' "personal and top-secret" letter that resulted in one of the raid's postponements. Peres had learned that the attack was scheduled for May 10, the date of the deciding round of French presidential elections...