Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does the industry tailored to respond to the needs and neuroses of those who are fighting, and largely failing, to keep their waistlines under control. Americans spent more than $30 billion last year on such offerings as diet books, videotapes, appetite suppressants, "lite" foods, low-calorie beverages and commercial weight-loss programs. Now the overweight and overwrought are rushing to try the latest raft of crash-diet plans, which promote ways to trim fat quickly by doing little more than taking pills or swilling specially formulated drinks...
Soviet foreign-policy specialists, who several years ago relished debating geopolitics and ballistic-missile throw weight, would now rather lament the surfeit of nearly worthless rubles or the possibility that the Communist Party will split into two (or six or 20) new parties...
CYCLE COMPUTERS. Tiny, handlebar-mounted computers coveted by racers have great appeal to leisure-time cyclists too. Firms like Avocet of Menlo Park, Calif., market a variety of "cyclometers" that measure and record speed, distance and even altitude. Whether gearing up for a race or trying to lose weight, cyclists always like to know their vital statistics...
...George Cukor's 1937 Camille. As the selfless courtesan Marguerite Gautier, Garbo transforms her face into a life- and-death mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh exploding into a tubercular cough, the weight of a thoughtful passion that gives substance to every line of dialogue -- testifies to Garbo's acute, intuitive knowledge of screen acting, and it allows her to play Marguerite at high pitch and with perfect precision. At the end, as she dies reconciled with her lover, she is both a helpless...
...these days Yepsen looks out over the rolling fields greening in the spring sun and sees nothing. "Strangely quiet," he says. Last October, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen showed up and added his weight to a notably leaden fund raiser. A couple of months ago, Colorado's voluble Congresswoman Pat Schroeder came around for two eminently forgettable speeches at Drake and Iowa universities. Since then nary a candidate...