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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currant ice cream in brandy-snap cups. As she slings the liquid sugar onto a laundry rack with a flick of her whisk, Stewart effortlessly alternates advice ("The hot sugar can get stuck in your cats' fur. Keep them out of the room") and anecdotes ("I forgot to buy regular squares of beeswax, so I am taking a little bit of the foundation that I use in my beehive"). No matter that her audience is only a camera. In fact, that is terrific: the more eyes on Martha, the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Guru of American Taste? | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...from weddings to weeding. From her beginnings as a Westport, Conn., caterer, she has risen like cream, until she now supplies her expertise through a newsletter, videos, seminars and lectures. Says Stewart: "I leave a lecture with 800 or 900 new friends -- I consider them my friends -- who will buy all my books, write to me and come to my seminars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Guru of American Taste? | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...front page because you haven't had a black face on the front page for three weeks, that's insulting," says USA Today reporter Mike McQueen. Others say the push to represent minorities in mainstream stories too often replaces solid minority coverage. "Mainstreaming won't persuade minorities to buy the paper if we don't cover them and their issues," says one reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Gannett, Aiming Beyond White Readers | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Imagine yourself as the owner of a bank and having a company president come to you saying, "Have I got a deal for you! Loan us enough money to help us buy our company back from the stockholders. We'll offer so much that they can't refuse. Then we'll streamline it by firing employees and selling subsidiaries...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Money the New-Fashioned Way | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...buy it, bomb it. That seems to be the philosophy of a shadowy group of Welsh nationalists who exploded fire bombs in five central London real estate offices last weekend. They call themselves the Sons of Glendower, taking their name from Owen Glendower, leader of a 15th century Welsh rebellion against the English, and are thought by the authorities to number little more than half a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Property Boom Boom | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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