Word: bon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waiter and an aspiring playwright, last July-a bare six weeks after Abbott had been released from prison on the urging of Novelist Norman Mailer. Not a cough sounded as Abbott, 37, gave some grisly details of the aftermath of the 5 a.m. stabbing outside the Bini-Bon restaurant where Adan had worked. Adan, Abbott related, "said, 'You didn't have to kill me.' He started going backward. From his face he looked like he was dead ... he kept walking backward on Fifth [Street]. I've never seen anyone dead walk that far." Then, said Abbott...
...paroled from Utah State Prison last spring, after Mailer had arranged publication of Abbott's book, In the Belly of the Beast, a horrifying description of prison life, and offered him a job as a researcher. On the fatal July morning, Abbott was breakfasting at the Bini-Bon with two young women and asked Adan if he could use the restroom. Adan replied that it was for employees only, and the two began a quarrel that they went outside to settle...
...slaughtered," she shudders. No dream houses on fantasy islands. All that is about to change. After two years and about $30 million in losses, the German publishers Gruner & Jahr have just peddled the monthly Geo (circ. 256,000) to Los Angeles-based Knapp Communications, which publishes Architectural Digest and Bon Appétit. Geo's new editor in chief: none other than Rense. Says she: "The magazine will have no more news, no more ecology, no more people lying in gutters with open sores. It will be timeless and a pleasure to read...
After seeing what Rense did with his tired little trade book, Knapp, 45, started throwing other challenges her way. In 1975 he purchased the budget recipe book Bon Appétit from the Pillsbury Co. Under Rense's stewardship, Bon Appetit (circ. 1.3 million) has become the culinary equivalent of Digest, with glossy color photographs of such dishes as caramel cream puff bouchees and oyster and spinach souffle. Says Rense: "I have no interest in a magazine that tells you 1,001 ways to prepare hamburger. I wanted a cooking magazine for people like me who are too busy...
...cover, whose thick green border confused readers and newsstand dealers; it was hard to tell issues apart. Rense anticipates "close, intense involvement with Geo for the first six months," returning from Manhattan to her home in Beverly Hills most weekends. She will continue to edit Architectural Digest and Bon Appètit and entertain on both coasts. If that is not enough, she has begun test studies for new magazines on collecting and travel. "I rarely feel overwhelmed, though," she says. "When too many things go wrong, I just eat two pints of ice cream and everything seems...