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...dream of movin' on t' somewhere else, like Mexico, Alaska or even Europe (ironic, huh?), as if movin' would make them into different people who maybe weren't so self-destructive. Th' members of th' family also dream that things would be better if they either sold their fallow avocado ranch or if they fixed it up. It doesn't hit 'em til th' end that their fantasies are impossible, that they're doomed...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...Avocado soap and almond massage...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: `Twas Twenty-One Days Before Christmas | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

...pages; $17.95). This culinary memoir is built around the foods of the author's North Carolina childhood, but it also encompasses recipes that Hovis developed in a career as a New York City food stylist and caterer -- chicken breasts in orange-cognac sauce, or a watercress, cucumber and avocado soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down-Home Around the World | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Tired of last year's tubular furniture? Depressed by dreary drapes, bent blinds, avocado wallpaper and grease-stained cushions? Embarrassed when splayed rattan furniture leaves your guests bleeding? Yes, but you have neither the time nor patience to tackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Vanguards Of Design, '80s-Style | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...Tapas leave you hanging. They give you a little bit so you have to have some more," says Fernando Martinez, a Mexican who works as a restaurant chef in Washington but snacks off-hours on miniportions of mussels in vinaigrette sauce, meat-filled puff pastries, and avocado stuffed with shrimp at El Bodegon, a Spanish restaurant in the capital. Jose Lopez, one of the owners of the successful El Bodegon, reports that tapas got off to a slow start in % Washington three years ago. "The biggest problem was people not knowing about tapas," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: And Now, Time Out for Tapas | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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