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...many consumers, buying flowers is no more of an extravagance than buying a loaf of bread. John Culbreth, who works in Atlanta's bureau of recreation, picks up some fresh-cut varieties while he does his shopping at the DeKalb County farmers' market. Says he: "I don't know the names of what I'm buying. I just know how they look." People are buying flowers to decorate their homes, brighten up their offices or cheer up pals. Michael Goldberg, a Chicago financial analyst, sent flowers to a college friend who had failed a test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunny Days for Flower Sales | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Another friend talks: Freshman year in high school, I decided to start losing weight. I wanted to have the best rear end in school. People were always talking about the grapefruit diet, the Beverly Hills diet, the water and bread diet; smoking and drinking coffee so they wouldn't want...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Diet Dementia | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...last week Venezuela announced that it was cutting some oil prices by $3 per bbl. Venezuela began imposing austerity measures in 1984, and these have led to an unemployment rate of 13.3%. The current administration has risked a public backlash by hiking the prices of such basic commodities as bread, milk and gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics a New Game in Oil Power | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...election day, bring two pieces of bread and a bottle of water. Bring a candle too. You should stay until the voting and the counting are over. If you think these will not do, bring a 2-by-2 piece of wood and protect your ballot with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Keep It Clean | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead him on quests for ultimate answers, but to him Catholicism is all Wonder bread and moving-eye portraits of Jesus. The prospect of reincarnation is just as spooky. "Great," he sulks. "That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Retro-Romance in a Swanky Town Hannah and Her Sisters | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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