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...extremely skinny--not svelte, but unnaturally thin. She starved herself torturously to achieve and maintain her underweight state. She ignored the hunger pangs in her stomach and she denied to her family and friends that she was hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: ANOREXIA NERVOSA | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

...felt a little bit as if someone had hit me in the stomach," McCue said this week, adding that he had been under the impression that the spirit of the faculty and morale of the school were higher than three years ago, when McCue discouraged a potential offer of the department chairmanship...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Not Simply Another Release | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

...stopped immediately." But on March 3 the manager, Frances Sweeney, denied my grievance, claiming that this method of cutting the ice cream cylinders is "a normal procedure" and "a long standing practice." Do they have to wait until the knife slips some day and stabs someone in the stomach before they put a stop to this...

Author: By Sherman L. Holcombe, | Title: Blows Against the Empire | 4/6/1976 | See Source »

...been to create something close to a parallel French cuisine. Says Dr. Georges Halpern, vice president of the French Gastronomical Medical Society: "Guérard has a genius for satisfying the upper part of the body-the tongue, eyes and mind -without filling up the bottom part, the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Hold the Butter! Dam the Cream! | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...emotional annihilation. Round after round of George vs. Martha actively involves Nick and Honey, a young married couple who spend the entire evening entertained by their baffling hosts. They are introduced to such favorite American pastimes as "Get the Guests" and "Hump the Hostess". Honey hasn't the stomach for the escapades and finally curls up in a fetal position on the bathroom floor. While Nick has leapt, feet first, into an upstairs bedroom with Martha, George pulls a volume from a shelf of his extensive library and reads: "And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and burdened with...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: Albee's Not | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

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