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...complete the course of treatment before offering his conclusions and failed to note the obvious cause of at least part of his weight loss: his consumption of chopped salads and grilled vegetables instead of French fries and pasta. If Ressner was going to be a guinea pig, why not go whole hog? Give us a week-by-week report on his progress on Redux, including the inevitable weight-loss slowdown and frustration. Then record his experiences post-Redux: tracking his dying brain cells (as was mentioned in the main article) and gradually regaining his lost weight, plus...
Somehow the McCourts got by, on driblets from Eire's dole and Angela's uppity kin, who berated her for marrying a sodden Ulsterman. Christmas dinner was no stuffed goose, but a lowly pig's head. No wonder young Frank dimly viewed Catholic priests preaching sacrifice to the pews while lorries delivered riches to their rectories. "Lent, my arse," he mused. "What are we to give up when we have Lent all year long...
...given to Yeltsin's campaign by U.S. politicos experienced in misleading the people and betraying democracy recalls the final sentence of George Orwell's antitotalitarian fable, Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." J. QUINN BRISBEN Chicago...
Alan Ayckbourn's book builds, with deft comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
...week in Sicily, Italian police arrested the country's top Mafioso, Giovanni Brusca, leading many Americans to wonder, Do Italian mobsters have colorful nicknames the way well-known U.S. mobsters do, like Vincent ("The Chin") Gigante and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano? In fact, Brusca is known as "The Pig." Other examples of Sicilian nomenclature...