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...WHAT THE IRS PAYS FOR. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has cracked its regulatory whip at a descendant of the Marquis de Sade, an exporter of French champagne. The issue was not unfit bubbly but the bottle's label: a drawing of a nude woman with a chain across her outstretched arms. A new label shows the woman gowned, holding flowers...
...modest revival in the '70s and '80s, when restaurantification became the new fad (and source of higher profits). Old-timers still mourn the fate of the Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes...
...door chain had been ripped off -- not for the first time -- and the key was lying on a table. One of the intruders announced he was from the Municipal Health Department. "We have to hospitalize you. We've received a great many letters from citizens, from your children...
SHIFTING SYSTEMS. Changing gears on a ten-speed can be difficult and dangerous. Riders have to look away from the road to see and adjust the shift levers. If a cyclist tries to change gears while standing up to climb a hill, the chain -- and rider -- can slip. "Gear fear" is the main reason why "so many of the ten-speeds that were bought in the cycling boom in the '70s are hanging in garages," says Fred Zahradnik, technical editor of Bicycling magazine. But with new index shifting systems from companies like Shimano of Irvine, Calif., he explains, "you just...
...computer age, many changes still lie ahead. The bike of the future will probably borrow more materials from the aerospace industry, have a more comfortable, ergonomic shape and employ brakes and gearshifts that are increasingly easy to use. But a few things will likely | remain constant: handlebars, pedals, a chain and two wheels...