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This new wave of no-guilt snacks has direct links to the efforts of Dr. Robert Atkins, whose get-thin-quick regimen became famous in the '70s for letting dieters have their steak and eat it too. Atkins controverted conventional dietary wisdom by asserting that eating fatty foods like bacon wasn't what caused weight gain. The real culprit, he said, was carbohydrates--the sugar and starch that are especially abundant in junk food. An estimated 25 million dieters have tried to follow his edict that if deprived of carbs as a source of energy, the body will burn...
...Today), "insurgent" (Los Angeles Times), "fiery" (New York Observer) self-proclaimed leader of "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," the great repository of hope--and donations--from the antiwar, anti-Bush, pro-gay, Michael Moore left. Even so, the Anglophile locution sounded quite natural coming from Dean's thin Wasp lips...
...supposed to be hard-boiled to the point of inedibility? None of Your Business is actually a magnificently dry social comedy, cunningly smuggled inside a meticulously researched, perfectly paced police procedural, like a virus packaged in a witty e-mail. As Sprague and Ballestrino worry away at a thin trail of clues, they banter and snipe at each other, stress about their expanding waistlines and diminishing love lives and generally behave like real human beings. It's an episode of Law & Order scripted by Candace Bushnell. And if that's not enough, for maximum degree of difficulty, Block supplies...
...only lasts [finger snap] that long"). How big can the mob movement get? Who knows? New York just had its sixth and there are plans afoot in Australia and Asia. And how will the mob project end? "Suddenly," Bill predicts, when the ideas for venues in New York wear thin. But judging by the reaction to the European ones - "I can't believe how satisfying that was," exclaimed a sweaty Phil Buckley-Mellor, 34, on his way out of the store - it looks as if we're in for an inexplicable autumn...
...some forms of ancient Japanese theater, a skinny red stripe on the stage is all that separates heaven from hell. For decades, Japan's fashion designers have treated the thin glass of their storefront windows as an equally inviolate divider, cleaving the cool, exclusionary aesthetic of their boutiques from the rowdy street fashion of the teens preening outside. But enter Naoki Takizawa's sleek, stark space in Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi Hills neighborhood and the soaring glass wall seems less a barrier than an instrument for osmosis. Among his latest designs for haute-couture label Issey Miyake?fanciful blouses...