2024年2月18日星期日

美國通 23 電影配樂與編舞‘Poor Things’ Uses Dance to Tell the Story。明星 Taylor Swift捐款。非健康食品：紅酒，巧克力Chocolate is not a health food (sigh). How Red Wine Lost Its Health Halo

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Trump Says It Would Be ‘Disloyal’ for Taylor Swift to Endorse Biden

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have been the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories for months.

By Maggie Astor

EAT

How Red Wine Lost Its Health Halo

For a glorious decade or two, the drink was lauded as good for the heart. What happened?

By Alice Callahan

PRINT EDITIONFebruary 20, 2024

Chocolate is not a health food (sigh)

the article that someone would have to eat around 700 calories a day of dark chocolate to get an equivalent amount of flavonoids as the supplements.

Experts in the article agreed that small daily amounts of dark chocolate—and occasional pieces of other types of chocolate—can be part of a healthy diet, but it shouldn’t be considered a health food.

“It would be a shame to turn chocolate into medicine when there are other acute pleasures that occur from its consumption, whether it triggers great memories or just reminds someone of a connection,” Eric Rimm, professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, said in the article. Of the need for more long-term studies of chocolate, he added, “It’s a tough job, but I am happy to volunteer.”

Chip by Chip, This Ice Cream Flavor Is Melting Away

Chocolate chip ice cream, once a year-round staple, has fallen out of favor.

A photo illustration depicting eight scoops of chocolate chip ice cream stacked vertically into a cup. — Credit...Photo Illustration by The New York Times

日米欧で進む牛肉離れ。

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOGN31ERH0R30C24A1000000/?n_cid=DSPRM1489

特にアメリカでは健康への懸念に加え、価格高騰が追い打ち。料理雑誌には「牛肉の節約方法」の記事も。「ステーキよりチキン」の傾向がますます強まっています。

How the Choreographer for ‘Poor Things’ Uses Dance to Tell the Story

Constanza Macras, founder of the Berlin dance company DorkyPark, uses “dance as a function, as a language,” in her work, be it for the stage or the screen.

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“It’s the moment that she starts to go free from Duncan,” Macras said of Stone’s character — a woman reanimated with the brain of her unborn infant. Duncan has whisked her on a trip around the world in the hopes of debauching her.

Instead, the Lothario finds that he can’t keep up with her in the bedroom or, as the scene under discussion reveals, on the dance floor. When Duncan leaps to his feet as well, he tries to save the situation and assert his control. “He’s trying to constrain her, he’s trying to show her how to dance normally,” Macras said.

“Their entire relationship is contained in that dance,” Ruffalo, who received a best supporting actor nomination for the Academy Awards for the role, wrote in an email. “And it’s incredibly fun and funny.”