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...Ronsard, who studied esthétique corporelle (body aesthetics) at a Paris école supérieure, recommends a diet that eliminates those foods she believes will leave behind the "toxic wastes" that contribute to cellulite. The low-salt diet includes raw vegetables and fruit, skim milk, lean meats, poultry and fish. It also includes plenty of water to help flush out the system and foods chosen to assist the kidneys and digestive tract in the elimination of wastes. In addition, Ronsard recommends deep breathing, exercises such as jogging and gymnastics, massage to break up cellulite deposits, and relaxing...
...launched from ships, aircraft or even submerged submarines; a rocket booster propels the missile until it breaks through the water's surface and its engine takes over. When equipped with a terrain-following electronic guidance system, which is now being developed, it should be able to skim great distances over land or water (as far as 1,500 miles). while eluding enemy radar defenses. (In contrast, ballistic missiles follow high, arcing trajectories, which make them more vulnerable to radar detection.) Because the recent Vladivostok arms-limitation accord does not specifically limit cruise missiles, some strategists are even beginning...
...faintly reminiscent of the long T shirts popular a while back in ready-to-wear-or fairly full skirted with waists clearly marked by tucks and belts, as Givenchy does them. Suits emphasize the midriff too, with slim skirts, or skirts tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey, flannel and gabardine are daytime favorites, with the emphasis on navy, white and variations on tones of beige; and the dressier clothes lean to muslins, chiffons and thin crepes in soft prints, like Dior's pointillist patterns, blurring from color to color to color...
...incidents barely finished. Most of us don't venture beyond the word "nothing" in summing up our day, but Anais reports her contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim the surface off life itself; when one person catalogues life's vicissitudes, he jolts many others out of an unwitting stupor. Nin laments our cultivated numbness in the latest volume of her diary with an observation that parallels Miller's complaint in Cancer...
WHITE LIGHTNING concerns a good old boy named Gator McKluskey (Burt Reynolds) who is serving time in the Arkansas pen for messing around with illegal liquor. Word reaches him that his younger brother has been murdered by a local sheriff (Ned Beatty), who has been getting a substantial skim off the moonshine profits. McKluskey turns state's evidence in order to get himself out of prison and get the goods on the sheriff. There is grim melodrama and folk comedy here, but Screenwriter William Norton sloughs off the more serious themes of an informer working inside a situation...