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...small, moderately priced Italian trattorias and American bistros. Many of them shunned the lavishly styled and priced restaurants, which in general took an almost unprecedented beating. The beef industry fought back even while the promise of immortality via good health made a superstar of cholesterol- reducing oat bran. And Oprah Winfrey's public skinnying down with the Optifast liquid diet may just make real food obsolete by the century...
Liquid diets, which enjoyed a burst of popularity in the 1970s, are once again a fad. Programs are being offered in thousands of clinics, hospitals and doctors' offices across the country. Advertisements and articles tout the diets' merits. Celebrity success stories like that of TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who shed 67 lbs., heighten the interest. In all, the liquid regimens have grown into a $100 million-a-year industry. But the re-emergence of the diets has raised questions about their safety and long-term effectiveness...
...four months, Oprah Winfrey's faithful viewers watched as she shed some 70 lbs. as easily as a butterfly casts off its chrysalis. Her secret? Last week the talk-show empress revealed it was Optifast, a liquid-diet program from Minneapolis-based Sandoz Nutrition. In the hours after Winfrey's program, Sandoz fielded more than 200,000 phone inquiries about its crash-diet regimen...
...movies, as the first mechanical art form, have always churned on assembly-line publicity. With the mid-'70s success of People magazine, and later + Entertainment Tonight, the celebrity industry went high tech and high gear. Nearly every hour of the TV day, from Today and Good Morning America through Oprah and Donahue to Carson and Nightwatch, is filled with show-biz interviews...
...event, which was held by Zeta Beta Tau, a primarily Jewish fraternity, pledges wore black face makeup and afro wigs and performed impersonations of Oprah Winfrey and the Jackson Five on stage. Students said that the Oprah impersonation had sexist implications because frat members pulled the pledge's arms back and forth saying "this is my girlfriend Oprah," hitting her and calling her "bitch," according to the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal...