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...picture of Salinger that Maynard draws for us is of a man preoccupied by homeopathic medicine who had a diet regimen built around vegetables and ground lamb cooked at very low temperatures. He loved certain TV programs - The Andy Griffith Show, The Lawrence Welk Show - and had reels of old Hollywood movies that he projected at home. He wrote every day, but the unpublished work was stored away in a large safe that occupied a good part of one bedroom. She tells us that because she found sexual intercourse with Salinger too painful and frightening to complete, she remained...
...many critics dismiss Davis, 56, as a purveyor of schlock, the Lawrence Welk of New Age. They are not impressed that Mannheim Steamroller, whose name derives from the German for crescendo, has performed twice at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree or that right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is a big fan. Romantic Melodies, a recent CD that scored the biggest week-over-week sales increase in Billboard history, was scorned by one critic for "anesthetic properties (that) would surely soothe ... in a proctologist's waiting room." Another compared Mannheim's violin-heavy harmonies to an orchestra...
...instrument he picked up. If you've got modern blood in your veins-and if, like me, you can remember as if it were yesterday the first time you heard the thrilling six notes that start Hey Joe -you're glad that Hendrix did what he did. But Lawrence Welk had his virtues too, and so did a Playboy you bought for the articles...
...That's a nice, round number, based on Japanese research showing that it improves fitness. But like so many one-size-fits-all solutions, those 10,000 steps may not all be necessary. "The number 10,000 has developed almost mythical proportions," says Gregory Welk, a physical-activity researcher at Iowa State University in Ames. "It's actually not yet clear at what point you start getting a benefit." In fact, if all you want is to stop gaining weight, you may need only 2,000 steps more than your normal routine?provided you also pay attention to what...
...That's a nice, round number, based on Japanese research showing that it improves fitness. But like so many one-size-fits-all solutions, those 10,000 steps may not all be necessary. "The number 10,000 has developed almost mythical proportions," says Gregory Welk, a physical-activity researcher at Iowa State University in Ames . "It's actually not yet clear at what point you start getting a benefit." In fact, if all you want is to stop gaining weight, you may need only 2,000 steps more than your normal routine - provided you also pay attention to what...