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...firm Restaurant Trends. For city dwellers, many of whom live alone in cramped apartments, restaurants have become a place to escape and socialize. "As rents skyrocket and the amount of space per person dwindles, the American kitchen has lost priority in urban centers," says Peter DuPré, general manager of Amsterdam's Bar and Rotisserie, one of Manhattan's hot new restaurants. "We are starting to experience the first generation brought up on restaurant food...
...Soviet p.r. offensive, which seemed aimed primarily at European newsmen, drew mixed reviews. "I have never seen this before," marveled Marcella van der Wiel, a reporter for Amsterdam's De Telegraaf. "The Soviets ask how they can help you." Yet most journalists saw a change only in tone, not in message. ''Sure, it is being presented more intelligently," said Jacques Amalric of Paris' Le Monde. "But it is the same old speech...
...start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere between Amsterdam and London. This story line is essentially incomprehensible in its complexity. Mostly what one observes about it is that from time to time, not-very-nice people get dead in a variety of not-very-nice ways. Having a hot steam iron pressed against the chest is perhaps...
...last week warned of "chaos" if infrastructure fails to expand sufficiently. As long as travel continues to grow, the skies might just be big enough for both models. Songs In The Keys Of Nokia Recovering mobile king Nokia last week flew American rhythm-and-soul star Alicia Keys to Amsterdam to help launch the N91, the company's response to Apple's iPod music player. Keys dazzled the crowd with piano wizardry and powerful vocals. Nokia boss Jorma Ollila is hoping she can do for the N91 what rocker Sheryl Crow did for the iPod. The stylish device holds...
Under red-lights more typical of Amsterdam than Cambridge, Avi Varma accompanied by his acoustic guitar and harmonica, performed several songs—or, perhaps more accurately put, a couple variations of the same song. The limited range of notes and identical beat of each song made the Amerherst College student’s performance the musical equivalent of an Ec10 lecture— exciting material made monotonous and boring...