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...They weighed me and measured my height," he said. "The doctor wrote it down and called the next guy. I had to tell him. 'Wait a minute. I'm underweight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Larry's Save-Your-Life Diet | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...plot of Annie Hall has the two underweight egos twine together, rose and briar. For a while they twitch as one, forming a touching sort of pill pool and neurosis bank in Alvy's Manhattan apartment. Then it is over. Annie drifts off to Los Angeles; Alvy writes a play about the affair, wistfully giving it a happy ending in which the lovers unite. The film's details are not meant to match reality exactly. Keaton, then 22, and Allen, then 33, met when he was casting his Broadway comedy Play It Again, Sam, not after a tennis match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...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 »

...impartial eye would have held us pale, underweight and understrength. A partial eye would have been appalled...

Author: By Alan M. Kaufmann jr. and Edward L. Trimble, S | Title: We Rode Around on Greyhound Buses, and Saw Some Ball Games | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

Elaborately bland hospital menus were torn up as the men wolfed down their first American food in years. Some were painfully limping as they returned, most were gray-faced and underweight, and a few seemed a little dazed. But the majority of the men, on first inspection, seemed physically fit, emotionally taut and almost boyishly delighted by their re-entry into the American world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS: An Emotional, Exuberant Welcome Home | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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