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Unlike anorexia nervosa, whose sufferers think constantly about food yet deny them-selves nourishment while exercising their bodies into a state of abnormal emaciation, bulimia often afflicts women who appear healthy, radiant and at an ideal weight. Despite their differing approaches to weight loss, however, bulimics and anorectics are alike in a number of ways. Their inflated fear of fatness, distortion of true 'body image, and extremely low self-esteem lead them to manipulate their metabolisms and turn an innate self-disgust into a dangerous attack on their own bodies...
DIED. Natalie Wood, 43, radiant movie actress who appeared in 45 films and won three Academy Award nominations; of accidental drowning; off Santa Catalina Island, Calif, (see NATION...
...eternal gamine has become a figure of icy chic; the lilt in her voice now has the gravity of years; she has barely a line to speak in the film's first hour, and too many silly words in the second. But she is still a radiant presence, and she blesses the end of They All Laughed with a display of poignant maturity. One would gladly pay to hear her read the Bel Air phone book. One would not be surprised to know that was Bogdanovich's next project...
...secretary-companion in Fenwick, Conn., on Long Island Sound. Vigorous as ever, she regularly bikes, swims, plays a fiercely competitive game of tennis. She talks easily about her life and her work. The Hepburn mind still functions dexterously. The odd detail may elude her, but her memory is radiant and rich with the large patterns of life, its experience and meaning, its jokes and ironies. And all of it falls into Yankee perspective...
After all the turnings, it seems radiant, this glimpse of the fact that there are people in the world...