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...play consists of a series of overlapping vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter talk, and a pitch to granddad for prep school tuition money made by a politic young man, to name...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Food for Thought | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...sales: $51 million) thrive on diversity. Cypress makes 80 different types of chips in a factory that can accommodate several tooling changes every day. Says T.J. Rodgers, the company president: "You can be very competitive with the Japanese if you understand what they're good at and don't bash into them head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Global Competition: Taking On The World | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Neuharth did not help the company's balance sheet last month when he staged lavish fifth-anniversary parties in six cities, including a star-studded Los Angeles bash with Actress Angie Dickinson and Author Jackie Collins. Next project: a weekday half-hour television version of USA Today, scheduled to debut next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Paper Party | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...marketing executive for Holly Farms. That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. Some 400 hungry guests joined Shore to gorge on 300 lbs. of chicken in plain, Cajun or smoky barbecue flavors -- the last being an almost inedible, acridly bittersweet and sticky mass. The clear plastic-sealed chickens and chicken parts are being introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: They're Fencing Beak to Beak | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...original no-respect art form. Primitive man knew that if he were to be hit over the head by his fiercest rival, then stumble around and yell "Aarrggh!," he would be acclaimed as a great tragedian. But if he were to do ten minutes of witty stand-up, then bash himself with a club, he would be accused of doing shtick. It is ever thus. At the movies, comedy may be king at the wickets, and most of Hollywood's nouveau novas -- Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Pee-wee Herman, Martin Short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sensational Steve Martin | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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