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...lost this much eating low fat," she says. "But the times I dieted that way before, it was always a struggle. With these diets, you just feel miraculously free of the craving and the drive to eat." The weight-beleaguered Cathy confronted the low-carb diet craze in her comic strip last week, uncharacteristically stifling an "Aack!" through five days of her co-workers' cheeseburger-eating braggadocio. Demand for beef in 1999 is projected to rise 1.6% over last year, and for pork 2.3%. Having it your way now includes having a plate, fork and knife included with a bunless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Anime originates from a type of Japanese comic called manga, which features crisp, motion-oriented illustrations, as well as storylines that are often quite violent. Anime takes that unique illustrative style and translates it into the animated medium. Result? A quality of animation unmatched by anything we have to offer here in the states...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anime for Dummies: A User-Friendly Introduction | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...exchanging caustic one-liners with his thinner, but emotionally more substantive, partner. However, as the wheels spin out, the film takes the audience along for a more complex, hellish ride that visits death, madness, and despair on every street corner. Ving Rhames as Marcus brightens the movie with a comic volubility that the heavy film so badly needs. He is a smooth talking paramedic who has a soft spot for gin and prostitutes and a talent for preaching. Then watch as he, cradling the receiver, slips his voice into something more comfortable and makes sweet love to the dispatcher (voiced...

Author: By Angela M. Hur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Quite Dead Yet : Trading ambulances for taxis and Cage for DeNiro, Scorsese returns to form. | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...frequently appears that the director is in flight from the severity of the family relationships that comprise the bulk of the script. It is plausible that with an expert ensemble and less sluggish staging and pacing, this play might present the possibility for some very comic moments...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, | Title: Shining Off: Gamma an Irradiant Shot | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...naked. And that's it. To put such pressure is in my way of thinking not a release of tension, but it's more tension to the lives of students, which is difficult enough at a school like Harvard. So if they need some relief, let them get some comic relief by doing something funny. But not put such competitive pressure on having to do something silly to top the next one. [Giggles...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Fifteen Minutes With Dr. Ruth | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

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