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...emerging as a vital musical force, offering adventurous new repertory and sparkling singing. Even its finances are improved. Says the irrepressible Sills, whose sanguinity was tested by the tribulations of the past five years: "I stuck out all the garbage, and now I'm going to enjoy the caviar and champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champagne Time for Beverly Sills | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the number of interstate airlines has increased from 36 to 125. They range from no-frills discounters like People Express, the fastest-growing company in aviation history, to tiny Regent Air, which plies its passengers on flights from Los Angeles to Newark with caviar, lobster and French champagne. Not all of them have been profitable. Old and new carriers, including Braniff and Air Florida, went bankrupt by expanding routes too fast. Said Daryl Wyckoff, a professor of transportation at Harvard Business School: "The airlines were always ending up like my beagle, 15 blocks from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling It Out in the Skies | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...been licensed for radio telephones, but they require special operators, and calls can be overheard on some other radio equipment. Lack of privacy, however, has not deterred the clients of small and svelte Regent Air, which began the old-fashioned service in August. In addition to being provided with caviar and executive secretaries for $810 one-way between the New York area and Los Angeles, passengers have called Paris, Rome, Santiago and even Chasen's restaurant in Hollywood for dinner reservations. The price: $7.35 for the first three minutes, plus charges for a regular operator-assisted call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Frequent Flyers, Call Home | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...brown hillsides arrived astride their own ten-speeds, even bicycles built for two-and-a-half (the baby on the back fender). It was the freest event in the most expensive Olympics, and a sunny Sunday for a picnic in suburbia, where neighborhood residents favored hearts of palm and caviar over potato salad and baked beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory Halleluiah! | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...among foreigners, who consider it as awesome as some of the palace museums that were once the Czars' homes. It is equally appreciated by Muscovites, because it stocks such hard-to-find items as fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. And for good friends with a taste for black caviar and French wines, Store Manager Yuri K. Sokolov was happy to oblige. But in April 1983, Sokolov was arrested on charges of corruption. Two weeks ago, he went before the firing squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Warning Shot | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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