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...early evening in Tokyo was hot (83° F) and steamy, and one of the world's busiest air terminals, Haneda, was even more jammed and uncomfortable than usual. But most of the jostling travelers were in a festive, uncomplaining mood. The three-day observance of Bon, a holiday season nearly as joyous as New Year's, would begin the next morning. Many Japanese would devote the days to nostalgic visits to the places of their birth, to happy reunions with relatives, to paying homage to their ancestors. The more religious among them believed that the spirits of their forefathers would...
...just suddenly realized that the blue patch at me feet was water coming in," recalls Simon Le Bon. So began the ordeal at sea that the lead singer of the rock band Duran Duran calls "the worst experience of my life." Le Bon, 26, was asleep in the cabin of his 77-ft., $1.8 million yacht Drum during the final leg of the international Admiral's Cup race about two miles off the coast of Cornwall last week when the keel snapped off and the craft capsized. The singer and five of the 24-man crew were trapped...
...discussion when experts try to define it. Child says, "There have been entire symposiums trying to define American cuisine. As far as I'm concerned, it is American food, cooked in America by Americans with American ingredients." The broadest view is expressed by Jan Weimer, food editor of Bon Appétit, a cooking magazine whose circulation has jumped from 300,000 in 1975 to its present 1.3 million. Says she: "The term means any food cooked in America today." Weimer explains the nationwide surge in gastronomic interest this way: "The '50s represented a low point in American cooking. Mothers were...
MARRIED. Simon Le Bon, 27, lead singer of the rock group Duran Duran and aspiring sailboat racer, who almost died last summer when his 77-ft. sloop capsized during a race; and Yasmin Parvaneh, 21, half-Iranian British model; in Oxford, England...
Abouazza, 24 at the time, was arrested near the Au Bon Pain in Holyoke Center on traffic violations and weapons charges...