Le Fooding; Ghoul Factor

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LE FOODING

   From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9 February 2001, pg. W11, col. 1:

_All the Rage in Paris?  Le Fooding_
by Jacqueline Friedrich
   PARIS--FOODING IS the buzzword of the moment here.  Merging the English words for food and feeling into a French noun, it was coined in early '99 by Alexandre Cammas in the hip Parisian magazine Nova.  And ever since, _le fooding_ has been on every Paris gastronome's lips as well as on food-oriented pages from Elle to the Air France in-flight magazine. (...)

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GHOUL FACTOR

   From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9 February 2001, pg. W8, col. 6:

_"The value will soar when the artist passes away."_  A creepy but troublingly common sales pitch, the tendency to bet on aging artists is a strategy so common it has inspired its own name--the "ghoul factor"--and a "Seinfeld" episode.  But would-be ghouls be warned: The math doesn't work