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...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe: A Man In Full | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...idea for the juice bar came from a visit toStanford University, where Jamba Juice, a WestCoast juice and smoothie chain, has a successfulstore on campus, Davidson said...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HDS Turns Up the Heat | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

Reasons for the closing are, as yet, difficult to determine. However, Kristin Sudholz, head of the Harvard Square Business Association, speculated that the theater was losing money for the moviehouse chain, which is based in New York City...

Author: By Carine M. Williams, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Without Any Fanfare, Sony-Loews Janus Cinema Closes | 10/27/1998 | See Source »

...from Pizza Hut's own challenge to customers to find a better pizza, Papa John's twitted its rival for using tomato sauce made from yucky-sounding "remanufactured paste." To rub in more salt, Papa John's called on Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney, who sold the chain to PepsiCo in 1977 and now owns more than 70 Papa John's franchises, to declare in television spots, "Sorry, guys, I found a better pizza." Schnatter professes to be delighted that Pizza Hut responded angrily with a lawsuit, which he calls a publicity stunt. "They took the bait," Schnatter says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slice, Dice and Devour | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...concedes that Papa John's sauce comes from canned rather than fresh tomatoes--Pizza Hut's sauce is packed in sealed plastic bags--and that Papa John's mushrooms are canned. (Pizza Hut's are fresh.) An unembarrassed Schnatter is switching to fresh mushrooms throughout the Papa John's chain. "I prefer canned mushrooms," he says with a straight face. "But the consumer prefers fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slice, Dice and Devour | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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